The phrase "an overarching pattern of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a general trend or theme that encompasses various elements or instances within a particular context.
Example: "In the study, researchers identified an overarching pattern of behavior among the participants that suggested a common underlying motivation."
Alternatives: "a unifying trend of" or "a comprehensive theme of".
But, arguably, part of their greatness is that they contain multiple possibilities: that they embrace both what Norman Rabkin called "ambivalence, even discoherence" and a sense of an overarching pattern of cause and effect.
The interesting thing I've found is that, yes, the popularity of such things varies from year to year, but no, there isn't an overarching pattern of increasing or decreasing agreement on any specific claim.
Moreover, microtubules in adjacent cells seem to form an overarching pattern, creating the impression of a continuous and supracellular pattern.
With the simplest of methods, Dr. Greenberg perceived an overarching pattern in African languages quite different from that espoused by the leading British authority.
Here, the overarching pattern of young adults' conceptions of a desirable job is that of a sound balance between security and fulfillment.
The overarching pattern of selection on microcephaly loci is therefore a consistent signature of positive selection across all eutherian mammals, perhaps with the exception of STIL, but with relatively little evidence of clade-specific differences in overall rates of evolution.
Macrosystem involves the overarching pattern of micro-, meso-, and exosystemsdefined as the characteristics of a given culture, subculture, or other extended social structure.
While there are no real winners in the overarching pattern of Christian decline, Evangelical Protestants declined by less than 1% over the past seven years.
Though the overarching pattern of results is the same for each analysis, we demonstrated some important differences depending upon the choice of comparison group.
In this paper we present two overarching patterns of infinite ontologies: those containing values, and those containing ontologies recursively.
In fact the analysis points to a more overarching pattern for North America, in the Late Jurassic, there was a mixture of a number of different dinosaur lineages vying for 'top spot' as the largest carnivore, arguably much like mammalian system we see today.
