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Definition of pattern after phrasal verb from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

pattern after

phrasal verb

Phrasal Verbs

(also pattern something on something) [usually passive]

to use something as a model for something; to copy something a new approach patterned after Japanese ideas

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