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pattern

[pat-ern, pat-n] / ˈpæt ərn, ˈpæt n /






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That pattern has been repeated across much of the frontline in Ukraine where local organisations have worked with international groups to try to safeguard their national heritage from Russian attack.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2026

Investor sentiment is a major source of this pattern.

From MarketWatch Sep. 18, 2026

“A finding doesn’t necessarily need to cause harm or reveal a broader pattern to be worth sharing,” Kai Chen, OpenAI’s head of alignment, said in an interview about the framework.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

Earth's gravitational pull should cause an extremely small shift in that pattern.

From Science Daily Sep. 18, 2026

The showiness of the feathers fought with the busy floral pattern and overshadowed the jacket.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

This is consistent with weather patterns during El Niño events at this time of year.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

Similar patterns appear on Sputnik Planitia, leading researchers to propose that subsurface liquid, specifically nitrogen, may be rising upward and wetting Pluto's frozen nitrogen surface.

From Science Daily Sep. 17, 2026

Mike Madrid, a political consultant and expert on Latino voting patterns, cautioned against viewing divergent Latino political attitudes as driven predominantly by gender.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 17, 2026

"People may revert to their prior behavioural patterns because the incentive payments are insufficient when the enthusiasm has waned," said Ferraro, an expert in human behaviour and public policy.

From Barron's Sep. 17, 2026

Holly riffled through the shelf of patterns, leaving me alone to think.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

He also chose a hairstyle patterned after the Mandinka warriors of West Africa — which has been commonly mistaken for a mohawk.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 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

Chunky platform sandals, fitted baby tees, butterfly clips on perfectly crimped hair, brightly patterned skirts and tons of sparkles.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

Two lamps stood on it, their shades patterned with flowery tendrils.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

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

From BBC Jun. 20, 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

Their discovery that simple stitch patterning can alter a fabric's elasticity points to knitting's potential for cutting-edge interactive technologies like soft robotics, wearables, and haptics.

From Science Daily Jun. 4, 2024

The new study identified a common molecular cue, while known to direct head-to-tail patterning in a wide variety of animals, as part of the gene circuitry guiding hindbrain patterning in sea lampreys.

From Science Daily Feb. 21, 2024

But you can draw in the patterning of the feathers so I can see how they are shaped and how they lie on the bird’s body.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt




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