Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The described techniques provide for a victim network entity to share a downlink preemption pattern with user equipments (UEs) and neighboring network entities. For example, the victim network entity may transmit, to a UE and/or a neighbor network entity, control signaling indicating a recurring downlink preemption pattern defining one or more resources during which the UE may preempt reception of downlink signaling and the victim and neighbor network entities may preempt transmission of downlink signaling. The UE and the network entities may refrain from monitoring for downlink transmissions and transmitting downlink transmissions, respectively, in accordance with the indicated downlink preemption pattern. In some examples, the UE and the network entities may be configured with one or more conditions for discarding the indicated downlink preemption pattern and monitoring the one or more resources for or transmitting downlink transmissions.