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Even though swamp land near the equator was rapidly drying up during the Permian Period, swamps and lakes possibly remained in patches alongside ice and glaciers closer to the poles.
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Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 3 July 2024
One of them pointed to a Barbie with vitiligo, a condition that causes loss of pigmentation in patches on the skin.
—Gregory Wakeman, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2024
Trying to sleep, in patches, the wife crossed a rushing stream on stepping stones that were unsteady beneath her feet; below them, in the water, swarms of small dark sluglike creatures waited for her bare feet to slip.
—Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
Open-source hardware design faces challenges that open-source software didn’t, such as greater costs, a smaller professional community, and inability to supply bug-fixes in patches after the product is released, explains lowRISC CEO Gavin Ferris.
—IEEE Spectrum, 13 Feb. 2024
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Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 3 July 2024
One of them pointed to a Barbie with vitiligo, a condition that causes loss of pigmentation in patches on the skin.
—Gregory Wakeman, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2024
Trying to sleep, in patches, the wife crossed a rushing stream on stepping stones that were unsteady beneath her feet; below them, in the water, swarms of small dark sluglike creatures waited for her bare feet to slip.
—Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
Open-source hardware design faces challenges that open-source software didn’t, such as greater costs, a smaller professional community, and inability to supply bug-fixes in patches after the product is released, explains lowRISC CEO Gavin Ferris.
—IEEE Spectrum, 13 Feb. 2024
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“In patches.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20patches. Accessed 19 Nov. 2024.
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