"the common pattern" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a particular way of doing something that is generally accepted or understood. For example: "The common pattern for writing a thesis paper is to include an introduction, body, and conclusion."
"—this is the common pattern," Sanjay said, finishing their thought.
Previously, the common pattern had been "two in a box": a sales manager and a services person.
Because the common pattern in such tweets matches that of Sunday's: seizing on an outlier and presenting it as fact.
Back-propagation neural network (BPNN) has been recognized as the common pattern recognition.
The common pattern, demographers said, is that a handful of immigrants move to a new region from one of the gateway states and put down roots.
In an image of hands, I guess the common pattern would not be a very good idea to look for because hands are very valuable in their appearance.
In that context, you can see understand the common pattern of recent years, in which a tremendously popular new leader is appointed to general acclaim … and then immediately begins to flounder.
The common pattern across European countries is not a wave of support for traditional conservatism, but a rush to embrace a populist prospectus such as that offered up in Britain by Nigel Farage's burgeoning UK Independence party.
Following the common pattern of a young practice, FAT designed a number of exhibitions and nightclub interiors, until their big break came with the office of Dutch advertising agency, Kessels Kramer.
The common pattern underlying these stories is the perceiving of a situation in two self-consistent but mutually incompatible frames of reference or associative contexts.
They tracked the way eccentric English verbs that did not add "ed" at the end for past tense (i.e., "learnt") evolved to conform to the common pattern ("learned").
