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This tiling pursuit first began in the 1960s, when the mathematician Hao Wang conjectured that it would be impossible to find a set of shapes that could tile a plane only aperiodically.

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2023

And for the past six years her interest in child education has been aperiodically broadcast.

From Time Magazine Archive

Edward of Wales's spruce, militant, black-mustached cousin Prince Arthur of Connaught, Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Scots Greys, presided at last week's welcoming banquet to the British Imperial Conference�held aperiodically since Queen Victoria's jubilee in 1887.

From Time Magazine Archive