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  "id": "pattern.regularity",
  "term": "pattern",
  "sense": "regularity",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 0,
  "arena": "E0",
  "domain": "foundation",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": null,
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The orbits of Jupiter's Galilean moons repeat every 177 hours due to gravitational resonance.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "The annual flooding of the Nile followed a predictable cycle for millennia before the Aswan Dam.",
      "domain": "geography"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Linux kernel releases a new stable version every 9 to 10 weeks on average.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
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    "groups.collection",
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    "health.condition",
    "hindsight-is-twenty-twenty.retrospection",
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    "language.communication",
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    "life.biological",
    "like.similarity",
    "line.geometric",
    "machine.constructed-system",
    "make.verb",
    "march.movement",
    "marks.visual",
    "material.physical",
    "matter.substance",
    "meaning.significance",
    "measurement.quantitative",
    "mind.cognitive",
    "missing-the-forest-for-the-trees.abstraction",
    "mode.method",
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    "music.auditory",
    "nature.ordinary",
    "never.temporal",
    "often.temporal",
    "on-the-same-wavelength.resonance",
    "organized.structure",
    "others.distinct-entities",
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    "related.association",
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    "role.social",
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  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "hand",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 1.0
  },
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}