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Investors expect at least two rate increases by July next year, though most anticipate rate setters to stand pat when they next meet on Oct.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Writer-director Reed Van Dyk’s feature debut navigates tricky emotional waters but emerges as a trenchant examination of what forgiveness and penitence can look like, allowing no room for anything resembling a pat happy ending.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve has stood pat on its benchmark interest rate.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

“I gave him a pat on his back, ‘Not at my school.’”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

He continues to pat my uninjured knee as I sniffle and shake my head.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

Baker smiled widely, nodded his head, greeted Ortiz in Spanish, chuckled and walked over to Ortiz and Vladimir Guerrero, giving each of them hugs and pats on the back.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

He pats my arm, then walks me to Jaarsma Bakery and stands in line with me, telling me how good the cake is.

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2025

The room where we meet has several places to sit, but Chan pats a spot on her couch right next to her.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025

Then in went the sliced garlic and tomatoes, the pan deglazed with a few generous pats of salted butter.

From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2025

Camel pats my arm in a congratulatory fashion.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

The machine patted me on the head by noting that I had avoided words like profound and tapestry and only once indulged in telling all of you “Here’s the thing.”

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

The monarch was also photographed laughing in the Oval Office when Trump reached out and patted his knee.

From Barron's ● May 1, 2026

And a year ago, after an address to a joint session of Congress, Trump shook Roberts’s hand, patted him on the shoulder and thanked him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026

As Hugo Ekitike walked off to the adulation of the Anfield crowd last Saturday and took his seat on the bench, Alexander Isak simply patted his Liverpool team-mate's hair from behind.

From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2026

So much had happened to him that it seemed days, not hours, since he had patted Star and murmured to her, since he had hugged Annad and kissed his mother good-bye.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda

A video, external of the incident shows the elderly man patting the child on the head as he walked past her table at a food court in a shopping centre.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

“Older, but no wiser,” Graham said, patting the Ukrainian president on the shoulder.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

They engulfed her in a sea of white, screaming, yelling and patting her head.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026

But at the tail end of his monologue, O’Brien assured viewers that the Oscars exist to honor cinema as an art form, not for the Hollywood industrial complex patting itself on the back.

From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2026

“Go on up to 806, baby,” she says, patting my arm.

From "Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero" by Kelly J. Baptist