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pattern something on something

to use something as a model for something else. Try to pattern your sales speech on Jane's. She's got it just right. We patterned our approach on Bob's.

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Red mittens with a black diamond pattern on the back are much run after. The Golden Road by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context She was idly arranging her little morsels of ham in a pattern on her plate. Miss or Mrs.? by Collins, Wilkie View in context said the Queen, pointing to the three gardeners who were lying round the rosetree; for, you see, as they were lying on their faces, and the pattern on their backs was the same as the rest of the pack, she could not tell whether they were gardeners, or soldiers, or courtiers, or three of her own children. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Carroll, Lewis View in context			paste on paste one paste up pasture pastures new pat pat answer pat down pat on pat on the back patch patch a quarrel up patch together patch up path path of least resistance paths cross patience Patience is a virtue patient as Job patriot patter patter of tiny feet pattern pattern after pattern on pave pave the way pave the way for pavement pay pay a backhanded compliment pay a call pay a call on pay a visit pay an arm and a leg pay as you go pay attention pay back pay back in own coin pay by pay compliment pay court to pay debt pay dividends pay down pay dues pay for pay heed to pay homage to pay in advance			Pattern Language of Programs Conference Pattern Languages of Program Design Pattern Languages of Program Design 3 Pattern Languages of Programs Pattern Languages Of Programs Conference Pattern Languages: Addressing Challenges pattern laying Pattern Learning Parser pattern maker Pattern Makers' League Pattern Markup Language Pattern match Pattern match Pattern matches Pattern matches Pattern matching Pattern matching Pattern matching Pattern Matching Engine Pattern Matching, Unification and Search Pattern Method Extension Pattern Model and Mould Makers Association Pattern Of Analysis Pattern of Body Fat Distribution Pattern of Business Activity pattern of disharmony Pattern of reasoning pattern of words pattern on Pattern Oriented Approach Pattern Oriented Software Architecture Pattern poem Pattern poems Pattern Poetry Pattern reader Pattern recognition Pattern recognition Pattern Recognition & Image Analysis Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence Pattern Recognition and Human Language Technology Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Association at Singapore Pattern Recognition and Media Understanding Pattern Recognition and Remote Sensing Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa Pattern Recognition Device Pattern Recognition Hand-Off Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics Pattern Recognition Independent Multicategory Analysis Pattern Recognition Letters Pattern Recognition Molecule Pattern recognition receptor

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