recurring pattern

collocation in English

meaningsofrecurringandpattern

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recurring
adjective
uk
/rɪˈkɜː.rɪŋ/us
/rɪˈkɝː.ɪŋ/
happening many times, or ...
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pattern
noun
uk
/ˈpæt.ən/us
/ˈpæt̬.ɚn/
a particular way in which something is done, is organized, ...
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(Definition ofrecurringandpatternfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Arecurringpatternof chromosome alterations was observed.
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There is arecurringpatternwhereby as an individual or an occupation rises in status, so it retreats from direct body contact.
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Cost reduction is the principle driver behind this transfer, but it also represents arecurringpattern whereby dirty work is transferred down the occupational hierarchy.
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Thisrecurringpatternsuggests that selected expressions might function as signals of the patronage bid.
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Debates on gambling seem to have arecurringpattern.
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This is arecurringpatternamong those who are gaining knowledge of these provisions.
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It is arecurringpattern.
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There is arecurringpattern.
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There is arecurringpatternof fibres usage in industry which now demands consistent measurement techniques which can be adopted by the operator and by the competent inspection authority.
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The economic history of the last few months illustrates only too vividly this sorry andrecurringpattern: the initial complacency—the bromides; the failure to concert measures in advance.
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Essentially in base- long division there are only a finite number of possible remainders, and so once there must be arecurringpattern.
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Conditional jumps that are taken every second time or have some other regularlyrecurringpatternare not predicted well by the saturating counter.
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Arecurringpatternof malicious denigration is considered grounds for a reasonable estrangement in modern cultures.
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In these modulations a certainrecurringpatterncan be perceived.
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This was arecurringpatternacross the empire, small landholdings the norm.
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Episodes within the series follow a frequentlyrecurringpattern, in which victims of hauntings begin noticing peculiar incidents that gradually become more frequent and bizarre.
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This had been arecurringpattern.
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If history has lessons to impart, they are to be found "par excellence" in such recurring patterns.
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These structures were analyzed for recurring patterns across organization and their contribution to achieving organizational goals.
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After transcription, the researchers perform inductive data-driven analysis aiming to find recurring patterns of interaction.
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