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pattern

[pat-ern, pat-n] / ˈpæt ərn, ˈpæt n /






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With high pressure showing little sign of moving away, this largely settled and dry weather pattern looks set to continue through early November, with little prospect of any significant rainfall.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 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

They add to a string of lesser accidents and incidents on Spain’s rail network, particularly over the past three years, a pattern that can no longer be dismissed as mere bad luck.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Just as we rush by one of the stairwell doors, my palm pattern burns.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

A model developed by Yale University economist Ray Fair uses GDP, a measure of inflation and historical voting patterns to predict electoral outcomes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

Researchers observed a process called nanoscale 'twinning', in which tiny sections of the metal's crystal structure rearrange into mirror-image patterns.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

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

Skills: Recognizing their own strengths and weaknesses, reflecting and analyzing themselves, awareness of their inner feelings, desires and dreams, evaluating their thinking patterns, reasoning with themselves, understanding their role in relationship to others.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

They then placed living muscle cells on the surface, where the cells grew into a thin layer following the patterned channels.

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

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

"I was less surprised by the differences and more surprised by some of the similarities, particularly in the ways these risks are patterned across settings," Nichols said.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026

He and Mother set up a Family Council, patterned after an employer-employee board.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

"I've been fascinated for a long time by the camouflage and disruptive patterning of moth wings," she added.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026

Beyond patterning, As2S3 also changes physically when exposed to light.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 21, 2026

"The Ediacara Biota look totally bizarre in their appearance. Some of them have triradial symmetry, some have spiraling arms, some have fractal patterning," says Dr. Lidya Tarhan, a paleontologist at Yale University.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 27, 2026

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

Sometimes I went up to the frozen cliffwall and looked down, down, at where the lights lay blue, like the threads running out from a star, patterning the snow.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner


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