"Overlapping patterns" refers to situations where multiple things or ideas are happening at the same time, with some similarities or connections between them.
Sentences with «overlapping patterns»
The works are built on swaths of torn fabrics (some as delicate as sheer chiffon and others as utilitarian as reclaimed bed sheets) that are glued together in overlapping patterns of color and varying degrees of translucency. (arthaps.com)
Well if that's the case, you have to have a processing engine built into rediscovery software that's going to be doing what we call overlapping shingles, that is looking at overlapping patterns of words that it can compare document to document to identify documents are reasonably similar. (legaltalknetwork.com)
These echoes are likened to «after images» in paintings with overlapping patterns. (awfj.org)