pattern
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“It’s over pattern recognition after years and years and years that you start picking up maybe what the opposing counsel is thinking,” Ma says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
El Niño, the climate pattern of ocean waters warming up in the central and eastern Pacific, does not guarantee drenching storms in California, but it tilts the chances in their favor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
The weather pattern "hits Colombia very hard," echoed Alvaro Clavijo.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
So every week when we publish the list of potential post-earnings moves, they are stocks that have this sawtooth pattern surrounding past earnings dates.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
The pattern was interlocking diamonds and had been there for all of Zeke’s life, so long he never even really noticed it anymore.
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
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“They’ll have the kind of strange, perfectly repeating patterns in the French fries or the bread often has far too much texture.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Not every summer will be as hot or dry as this one, as weather patterns vary from year to year.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Ocean temperatures already are elevated because of da combination of the strengthening El Niño, weather patterns and long-term global warming, melting polar ice caps, pushing tide lines higher and providing extra energy to storms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
To explore that communication, Javadzadeh and her colleagues trained mice to tell the difference between two visual patterns tilted in opposite directions.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
They only looked different on holidays, when girls decorated their family’s paths and thresholds with painted patterns called alpanas, just as their ancestors had done for generations.
From "Rickshaw Girl" by Mitali Perkins
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At breakfast, Collins is wearing a patterned turquoise jacket over a matching dress and high-heeled black leather boots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
The soft green remains in the primary bedroom, which also features moody fabrics, such as a tapestry hanging on the wall and heavy patterned curtains.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
The program, said the office in a statement, is patterned after police departments’ gun buyback programs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
In the urban-focused section, the handles of purses or luggage are adhered to sections of the work patterned like brick and embedded with small windows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The two pieces stay standing, separate, for a moment before they fall, the patterned back facing up.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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"I've been fascinated for a long time by the camouflage and disruptive patterning of moth wings," she added.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
"It's remarkable how mathematical yet another aspect of plant form and patterning turns out to be," Prusinkiewicz adds.
From Science Daily ● May 14, 2026
"The visual cortex itself changes. It becomes more similar to the areas around it. There are still a lot of questions about how development controls this patterning."
From Science Daily ● Jun. 3, 2024
The pictures’ flatly painted skin and two-dimensional patterning in textiles and wallpaper are set into shimmering visual motion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2024
“I’ll see if I can make some extra soap this month,” she said, steam rapidly patterning her forehead with beads of sweat that pooled in the creases of her frown.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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