Word: pattern
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...contrast, if the thyroid works too hard, a condition called hyperthyroidism, it can rev your body up to the point that your hands tremble. You have trouble falling asleep, and your heart quivers in a dangerous pattern called atrial fibrillation. In an extreme case, your eyes will bulge...
...said he entered politics in 1993 because he was alarmed that Boston was developing a "donut" pattern in which wealthierindividuals were leaving the city center andtaking resources with them...
...perhaps even more interesting is the fact that many of these band names even follow a similar grammatical pattern. That is, the first of the pair of words tends to describe the second word in some way or another. This is the case with aforementioned bands (both big and small), like Green Day, Barenaked Ladies, Tragically Hip and Thrifty Spackle, among others...
...friend took Brynn back to her home at dawn. But as the kids were carried out, she locked herself in the bedroom with a second gun and shot herself in the head. The Times quoted a lawyer who handled Hartman's 1985 divorce as saying the couple "had a pattern of arguing at night, and he would go to sleep and everything would be fine in the morning." Not this time...
...nurturing of truthfulness, seems to have disappeared behind the smoke screen of personal privacy in the case of our shameless President. Somehow we must keep the moral and ethical issues in the forefront and resolve them in such a way that our children have positive examples to pattern their lives on. It is unfortunate that the moral issue in this case involves sex. The American penchant for locker-room humor has permitted the immorality of President Clinton's behavior to become clouded, at least, and perhaps even approved of by a cadre of admiring misfits with no respect...