The phrase "acknowledging a pattern" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the recognition or acceptance of a recurring theme or trend in data, behavior, or situations.
Example: "In her research, she focused on acknowledging a pattern in consumer behavior that indicated a shift towards sustainable products."
Alternatives: "recognizing a trend" or "identifying a pattern".
By the time Colin turned 5, I reluctantly acknowledged a pattern.
In an FBI interview related to a 2012 investigation of illegal campaign coordination in Arizona, however, Sproul acknowledged a pattern of law-breaking involving dozens of people hired by his firms, according to a transcript reviewed by the AP.
The F.B.I. and the Justice Department have acknowledged a pattern of cases before the Bush administration in which bureau agents offered false information to the wiretap court in seeking permission to conduct surveillance of American citizens and foreign residents.
Needless to say, no major candidate in New York would find himself, or herself, being forced to acknowledge a pattern of sexual misconduct that is at best loutish and at worst arguably criminal.
Sloan spent more than two years on an countrywide apology tour after Wells Fargo acknowledged a pattern of consumer abuses — from opening millions of fraudulent accounts on behalf of its customers without their consent to mistakenly foreclosing on hundreds of clients and repossessing the cars of thousands of others.
We start with estimating separate duration models for students who started with HBO and WO acknowledging a distinct pattern of performance of HBO and WO students as shown by Figure 2.
Mr. Schneiderman's office, people briefed on the matter said, had pushed Wells Fargo to acknowledge a systematic pattern of mortgage servicing errors and to commit to a new agreement codifying changes to the way the bank services mortgages.
Unlike much of the rest of the letter, which follows pattern of acknowledging a problem before presenting a (potential) solution, this is just the problem: Zuckerberg doesn't really have any ideas about how to solve it.
Disparate geographic distribution of suicide has been recognized for the past two centuries, with the first seminal observations of Morselli [ 4] and Durkheim [ 5], who acknowledged an endemic pattern of suicide in the late XIX century in Europe.
By recognising coercive control, you acknowledge such a pattern exists.
