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pattern

[pat-ern, pat-n] / ˈpæt ərn, ˈpæt n /






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There’s an obvious objection to all this: It sounds as if we’re naively personifying a giant math problem, mistaking statistical patterns for sentience—falling for the oldest anthropomorphic error in the book.

From The Wall Street Journal

This pattern indicates that the entire filament is rotating as a single structure.

From Science Daily

Above S Monocerotis, a group of young stars forms a simple triangular pattern.

From Science Daily

Here, it is a man whose labor disappears behind a woman’s byline, a sly inversion of the far more familiar historical pattern.

From Salon

More than ever, it belongs to the rich, producing a “K-shaped” economy, which has been playing out in shopping patterns this holiday season, as my colleague Caroline Petrow-Cohen recently wrote.

From Los Angeles Times