paradigm

[ UK /pˈæɹədˌa‍ɪm/ ]
[ US /ˈpɛɹəˌdaɪm/ ]
NOUN
  1. a standard or typical example
    he provided America with an image of the good father
    he is the prototype of good breeding
  2. the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time
    he framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigm
  3. the class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another)
  4. systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word
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How To Use paradigm In A Sentence

  • Either Mrs David has had an enormous impact on her countrymen or a major paradigm shift has occurred.
  • Almost all non-functional programmers are unaware that tail calls facilitate a programming paradigm that they have never seen. Reddit.com: what's new online!
  • One usually thinks of the paradigmatic soldier is the front line rifleman, or maybe a guy buttoned up in a tank.
  • A lot of mistakes I see are a lack of cover letter, and an objective statement on the resume that is all wrong for the job opening, " says Lindsay Olson, partner and recruiter at Paradigm Staffing.
  • Schreker's opera not as a work from a turn of the century long ago, but as a paradigm with very contemporary relevance.
  • In one sense, Schaller correctly assesses the New Paradigm refuseniks as mourners for the lost order.
  • These paradigms will be of as much interest to philologists and ethnolinguists as they may be to ornithologists.
  • So far the trend is that the self-assembly paradigm gets more convoluted and improbable as the search continues, and the design paradigm gets more and more plausible. A Good Saturday Evening Flick
  • The City, in short, was placed on the same platform as Wall Street, thus creating the paradigm known as Anglo-Saxon Capitalism. Robert Teitelman: Big Bang, Now and Then
  • The old paradigm said it was my ministry they were loyal to. Christianity Today
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