There's a creeping pattern of New York phobia among high-profile athletes, and it has to stop.

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He invented an innovative fly pattern, called TruForm, which accurately mimics the natural profile of an emerging mayfly.

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Reporters assigned an arts profile like nothing better than to find a pattern or unifying theme in the subject's work.

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All have negative weekly chart profile, and four of the five match the pattern for oil with closes last week above their 200-week simple moving averages.

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All have a negative weekly chart profile, and four of the five match the pattern for the SOX, with closes last week below their 200-week simple moving averages.

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If the pattern of public opinion in general is bell-shaped, that of religious belief has the profile of a Volkswagen Beetle: a bump of evangelical Protestants at the front, a bigger bulge of uncensorious congregations in the middle and a stubby secular tail.

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Major Japanese companies have, historically, been reluctant to bring outsiders into the boardroom, a pattern that many corporate-governance experts have said has led to insular management and a number of high-profile corporate scandals in recent years.

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