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pattern

2 verb
     
pattern2 [transitive]
1

be patterned on/after something

to be designed or made in a way that is copied from something else:
The exam system is patterned after the one used in Japan.
2 literary to form a pattern on something:
Tiny white flowers patterned the ground like confetti.
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