pattern
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The climate pattern in the tropical Pacific is associated with warm, wet winters in California, and has already delivered powerful ocean swells along the state’s coast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026
Although methane absorption varied considerably between the 13 locations, a clear overall pattern emerged.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
This emerged as a pattern during his first term, when personnel churn was a constant.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
Although the specifics at Brown-Forman are unique, the larger pattern, one I call the cousin problem, is not.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 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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Like other quant firms, Two Sigma programmed its computers to sift through oceans of stock prices and other data to find patterns that helped predict where markets would move.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
The discovery suggests that fractional Fermi seas represent an exotic critical phase of quantum matter, with characteristic patterns of particle correlations that extend beyond existing descriptions of one-dimensional quantum systems.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
They are written by the same officials, the commentary cross-references specific guidelines, and both the commentary and guidelines are reviewed after years of data collection on sentencing patterns across the judiciary.
From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2026
But the lawsuit sparked an online backlash after Chinese internet users and state media pointed out that the motif shares roots with ancient Chinese traditional patterns.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026
“Since this mission is about protecting Stavros Sinclair from the Purple Thumb, I thought I’d look for patterns in their past crime scenes.”
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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But it didn’t bother Wertheim, who has a flair for patterned loafers and wears a signature red fedora.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 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
Movie theaters with patterned carpeting have been deemed liminal, as have fast-food restaurants, parking garages and malls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
For more upscale dining, there is a beautiful formal dining room that features a large table, patterned floral wallpaper, and a unique spiked chandelier that hands at the center of the space.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 4, 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
"We would see different outcomes of the patterning when we would start with genetically identical cells in different numbers," said Morsut.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 19, 2024
Most of Thomas’ paintings pile on vivid color, brash patterning and lots of sparkling rhinestones, taking an exultant step toward rectifying the omission.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2024
Roughly: the more “rhetorical” it sounds—the more stuffed with extended metaphors, elaborate verbal patterning, and five-dollar words—the higher the style.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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