pattern
Example Sentences
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The pattern is familiar: A company rides a genuine cultural trend, gets valued on growth rather than steady-state profitability, and eventually runs into a ceiling.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
Lee, then, is left wondering if this is the true nature of mortality: a long pattern of disappointments, up to and including the moment you gasp your final breath.
From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026
But the pandemic saw a shift in that pattern.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
"For many cosmic-ray events taken together, their energy distribution, arrival-direction pattern and statistically inferred composition provide important clues about where these particles come from and how they are accelerated."
From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026
Brooklyn looked for any bricks that didn’t quite fit the pattern and noticed that several were slightly uneven and out of place.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
Vocabulary lists containing pattern
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 4
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