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The phrase "a predictable pattern of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing a consistent or expected sequence of events, behaviors, or phenomena.
Example: "The data revealed a predictable pattern of customer behavior during the holiday season."
Alternatives: "a consistent trend of" or "a regular sequence of".
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These meter-wide kill sites have a predictable pattern of destruction about them.
Another Red Sox season has slipped into a predictable pattern of teasing fans early, then tormenting them.
Part of the grim reality of the frequency of terrorist attacks in Europe is that now there has become established a predictable pattern of reaction.
The transits generally occur in a predictable pattern of two occurring in an eight-year period, followed by one 105 1/2 years later and another eight years after that.
News reports have followed a predictable pattern of stories based on leaks from prosecutors with emerging details of the $4 million that prosecutors believe he tried to hide by investing it in land in Tokyo.
By January 2009, however, America had already been losing jobs for months; between December 2007 and June 2009, men lost about 5.4m jobs, net, and women lost 2.1m.Per the labour economists consulted by Politifact, then, the numbers show a predictable pattern of job losses during a recession.
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They argue that one can most easily get to sleep and get a good night's sleep if there is a predictable pattern to the use of the bed such that one goes to bed in the same way at the same time every night, and that the bed is not a place for other activities that could distract one from going to sleep.
Given the inadequate infrastructure, the lack of any welfare provision and the proportion of unskilled rural migrants, the social indicators in Bosa follow a predictable pattern – rates of unemployment, crime and poverty are exceptionally high and provide the perfect conditions for children abandoning education and commencing work on the street.
Though they follow a predictable pattern, transits of Venus are rare.
3, 6 Currently, however, no data support other routes of administration or lower doses of misoprostol as a first-line treatment for PPH. 2, 18, 19 Furthermore, we do not know if treatment affects the course of misoprostol-induced fevers: the cases of fever presented in this paper followed a predictable pattern seemingly independent of the type of management.
Social media reactions to celebrity death have taken on a predictable pattern: an outpouring of shock with expressions of grief, followed by a ghoulish need to know all the details, to see the scene of the death and the family in mourning.
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