pattern
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With high pressure showing little sign of moving away, this largely settled and dry weather pattern looks set to continue into early November, with little prospect of any significant rainfall.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
For decades, researchers have struggled to explain how this pattern develops.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
Detectives then found a pattern of invoices, often for food items inconsistent with school meals, but matching dishes on the menu of his private catering business Flava 2 You, said Borges.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
Neither the United States nor Iran has engaged in major attacks on land-based targets since early September, settling instead into a pattern of strikes on commercial ships.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
Bat liked it when things followed a pattern, and Every-Other Fridays broke the pattern.
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
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Data from marketing firm Grey Matter supports these patterns, revealing that business-to-business search clicks cost roughly 21% more from April through September 2026 than a year earlier.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026
The leadership coach in Atlanta, puts this down to noticing "significantly more and more" severe weather patterns and storms around the world and a lack of preparedness.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
To understand how this modelling works, think of it as predicting invisible patterns by combining known data points with environmental signals.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
While detectives examined the patterns around Bumper’s spending, they discovered that Segura appeared to be committing fraud of her own.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
It’s supposed to help with recognizing unhealthy thought patterns and learning how to change them, but I don’t see how it can help me at all.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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Both sides of the gel were patterned with square-bottomed grooves and covered with living muscle cells.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
For that project, the engineers patterned a gel disk with grooves extending outward from its center and forming concentric circles.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 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
“I didn’t have any money to have stuff and I’ve often joked about it, but it’s the real truth that I patterned myself after what they considered the trash in our hometown.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
It was a beautiful room, with a carpet patterned in the colors of the oasis.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
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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
One of the best known examples of organized patterning is the Voronoi diagram, a geometric system that divides space into separate regions around central points.
From Science Daily ● May 14, 2026
The shrewd design’s geometric patterning reverberates against the trailblazing Bauhaus tapestries of Anni Albers, as much as those of Gutiérrez’s Oaxacan ancestors, for a work that travels through time and space.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2024
By experimenting with mathematical patterning techniques, the team created two different types of models that allow farmers to create a protective layer of vaccinated cacao trees around unvaccinated trees.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 23, 2024
One has donned an extravagant dress that features bright red-and-gold patterning.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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