Thin, white threads are obtained from the core of fresh aloe leaves and woven into a net or other pattern on a cardboard background.

UNESCO: Culture

The recession may have slowed the pace of net migration, but the essential pattern has remained in place.

FORBES: New Geographer

Since that period, I have been actively trading gold based on the technical pattern and market conditions, but maintained a net long position.

FORBES: Gold Bound For New Highs

Its reaction with the odour molecules changes a detector's electrical resistance, and this signal is fed into a neural net (the closest that computer technology has got to imitating the pattern-recognising abilities of networks of nerve cells) to work out what is being smelt.

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