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The phrase "a frightening pattern" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a recurring situation or trend that causes fear or concern.
Example: "The recent increase in violent crimes has created a frightening pattern in our community that we cannot ignore."
Alternatives: "a disturbing trend" or "an alarming pattern".
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Professor Smith, while calling Ms. Stewart's indictment "a stunning development," said: "I see this as part of a frightening pattern in recent years.
We are seeing a frightening pattern develop: young people who were born in Europe killing in the name of a religion they know little about.
A Frightening Pattern In the fall of 2006, Deborah turned her residency research requirement into a personal quest for better information, analyzing the records of BRCA mutation carriers who had been counseled at Northwestern.
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Back in 1979 and 1980, when AIDS, still unnamed, was sending a trickle of sick patients into New York hospitals with puzzling symptoms, it was the overview at this weekly meeting that gave city doctors a vision of a new and frightening pattern of illness well before the rest of the country caught on.
"It's a frightening, frightening word," he said.
"He was a frightening, Lear-like figure.
It is a frightening notion.
This was a frightening possibility.
That was a frightening moment".
That is a frightening prospect.
A frightening smile.
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