The phrase "against the patterns" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing actions, behaviors, or ideas that oppose or deviate from established norms or trends.
Example: "Her innovative approach to problem-solving often works against the patterns that others follow."
Alternatives: "contrary to the norms" or "in opposition to the trends".
In the works here, she superimposes her visual treatise against the patterns and customs of contemporary Roman society.
The tapestries show large, dark silhouettes — the latest incarnation of the shadow figures Mr. Kentridge has deployed for years — against the patterns of old maps.
Seinfeld talks about his comic routines as if they're discovered rather than created: observations that are out there, camouflaged against the patterns of everyday life, waiting for him to detect them.
Then, users are evaluated against the patterns by probabilistic methods.
Caenorhabditis elegans posed an exception against the patterns (i), (ii), and (iv), which will be discussed later.
The greater the distance, the larger deviation of u's behaviors against the normal pattern.
Furthermore, this altered morphology in young adulthood does not apparently protect against the normal pattern of morphological change with aging.
Recent works were gaining repeat performances, against the pattern in current musical life that new pieces are rapidly forgotten while old ones are remembered all too well.
California, an important blue state, seems to go against the pattern, because fifty-seven of its fifty-eight counties have feral hogs.
Updated at 3.16pm BST 3.11pm BST Sarah Finch, a member of the laity from London, will be voting against: The pattern for church life that we find in scripture points to a God-given male leadership.
The versions of the witnesses as to exactly what transpired at the interviews varied considerably, but the court made no findings of fact on the matter, and it is difficult to grasp the basis on which it singled petitioner's juror interviews out for censure against the pattern of a common practice of such interviews in the Territory.
