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- noun Plural form of
patter .
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Examples
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She treats the cups 'interiors so that tea-stains build up more in patters she lays down -- the more tea you drink, the more pronounced the stain-patterns become.
Boing Boing: December 3, 2006 - December 9, 2006 Archives 2006
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It grows cloudy and threatening, rain patters slightly.
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan b. 974? Murasaki Shikibu Izumi Shikibu 1920
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Tis a dreary night the rain patters dismally against the panes tis a night for such a task Ill in and attempt to infuse the spark of life.
Act I 1823
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Obama made a “weather here/weather there” comparison to specifically note the speciousness, and then went on to address the issue of trends of which certain types of weather patters are an exemplar.
Think Progress » Obama explains climate science to global warming deniers. 2010
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Not true, they didn't "evesdrop," data mining to locate calling patters to targeted numbers (i.e. terrorists outside this country), then got warrants based on the call patterns before tapping any conversation.
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There's too many 'patters' out there too, a change would be great since I get confused very easily!
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Vieri finishes tracing the patters a third time – and deep within the room before them there is a sonorous clang – like the tolling of a large bell.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Thablue’s Review Forum 2009
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Wait ... if we can build robo-patters, maybe we could build them to look like George Clooney!
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Repeatedly throughout history, the artist introduces symbols and icons that in retrospect prove to have been an avant garde for the thought patters of a scientific age not yet born.
Kimberly Brooks: Art, Physics and the Huffington Post Kimberly Brooks 2012
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Most exciting of all, one of my lunch bag patters will be included in a craft book that will be released in July 2010.
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