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The automaker says headliner pates on both sides of the cars may not be secured properly and could detach and hit drivers or passengers.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 9, 2022

That proscription is known as the no-hair theorem because famed American theorist John Archibald Wheeler quipped that it meant black holes were as indistinguishable as bald pates.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 13, 2019

Miss Dormer says “Hunger Games” fans often approach her to discuss Cressida’s unique “undercut” hairstyle, a style many acolytes of the books and films have copied on their own pates.

From Washington Times • Nov. 19, 2015

Indelibly enigmatic, she tickles their pates but evades their clutches.

From Slate • Feb. 27, 2012

“These are for you,” she says, handing Ashima a cellophane-wrapped basket full of tinned pates and jars of cornichons and chutneys that Gogol knows his parents will never open or enjoy.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri