pattern-wiseadv.
/ˈpatnwʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈpædərnˌwaɪz/ In the manner of a pattern; concerning patterns.
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1878 ‘G. Eliot’ College Breakfast Party in Macmillan's Mag. July 163 Not any letters of the alphabet Wrought syllogistically pattern-wise.
1962 W. Nowottny Lang. Poets Use viii. 221 An impulsion to go in one direction (intellectually, emotionally, or pattern-wise) encounters another impulsion that deflects it.
2002 London (Ont.) Free Press (Nexis) 17 Dec. d5 Pattern-wise, you'll see everything from cats and cows to mice and dogs frolicking on cuddly flannel pyjamas.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adv.1878- office of kindness
- office of mover
- office of perpetuity
- office of presidence
- office of prothesis
- office of the mass
- office of the revels
- office of the virgin
- office of works
- office paper
- office park
- office party
- office patient
- office pen
- office piano
- office politics
- office routine
- office staff
- office stool
- office tower
- office wife
- office window
- office work
- office worker
- office-bearer