His own remains were scattered in a truly random pattern.

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Each one is stuffed with several hundred tiny glass spheres or shards, of random size and glued in place in a random pattern so that each token, which can be inserted in a credit card, is unique.

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For a small project in New York's Hudson Valley, he camouflaged a house's exterior by installing a grove of 32 quaking aspen trees in a sort of random, scattered pattern a few here, a few more there, five or six on either side of the structure.

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By utilizing the Blender 3D creation suite (which was a first for Kumparak), Unity 3D engine and Qualcomm's Vuforia AR SDK, the result is an Android app that renders the 3D interior atop the random wave-like pattern -- visible once the door's removed -- on the TARDIS in real time (no pun intended).

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We conclude from the data from 1927-2012 that the pattern of returns is random.

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Academics say that the stock market is random--that there is no pattern to price movements.

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The News 11 team found a pattern of women who believe that there was nothing random about the way they were selected for extra screening.

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Hence, any time we see anything remotely resembling a pattern, we assume there must be something non-random causing it.

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This is because we are wired to believe that any apparent pattern must have an identifiable cause, and thus cannot be random.

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