usual pattern
collocation in Englishmeaningsofusualandpattern
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usual
adjective
uk/ˈjuː.ʒu.əl/us/ˈjuː.ʒu.əl/
normal; happening, done, or used ...
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pattern
noun
uk/ˈpæt.ən/us/ˈpæt̬.ɚn/
a particular way in which something is done, is organized, ...
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(Definition ofusualandpatternfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Theusualpatternis fluctuating symptoms of meningitis accompanied by facial palsy and peripheral radiculoneuropathy.
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The mystery lies in phrases 2, 3, and 4, which deviated from theusualpattern.
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It follows theusualpattern.
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This is theusualpattern.
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It is theusualpattern.
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These authors followed what was by then theusualpatternof combining natural history with a more properly historical account.
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Theusualpatternis for recurrences and persistent symptoms, psychiatric co-morbidity and impaired level of psychosocial functioning.
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Every attempt was made to reproduce theusualpatternof decision-making on the approval of care packages.
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That dancers enter separately from the choruses in this divertissement goes contrary to theusualpatternof simultaneous entrances.
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The proceedings will follow theusualpattern.
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The first set of regulations follow theusualpattern.
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These provisions in general follow ausualpattern.
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I congratulate him on sticking to hisusualpattern.
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Their childless position had made them aware of thisusualpatternof life, and the majority of them had experienced marked feelings of being different.
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The moreusualpatternis for commissioners to be retained while useful, and dismissed after offending their presidents in some way.
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Theusualpatternis for the left subclavian artery to arise from the left pulmonary artery in the presence of a right aortic arch and bilateral arterial ducts.
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If one of the parents dies or if they divorce, theusualpatternmay be that the widowed\\divorced parent moves to the house of a child.
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However, if iambicity is permitted here, then it is difficult to see how one would give an account of theusualpatternof antepenultimate noun stress.
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If not, to what extent does he believe the oil position will alter theusualpattern?
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I shall return to myusualpatternof not speaking again for another two years.
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Hunger and cases of malnutrition have been reported some two months ahead of theusualpattern.
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Theusualpatternis that only one representative is appointed by the political affairs committee.
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Perhaps we could follow theusualpatternof keeping in touch by letter or in other ways.
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When a private interest yields to a public interest, theusualpatternis that the private interest is properly compensated.
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