paradigm
a framework containing the basic assumptions, ways of thinking, and methodology that are commonly accepted by members of a scientific community.
such a cognitive framework shared by members of any discipline or group: The company’s business paradigm needs updating for a new generation.
Informal. a general mental model or framework for anything: Their first album completely blew apart my paradigm for what rock music could be.
an example serving as a model for others to imitate; pattern: Pelham Dairy’s 10-year aged cheddar is the paradigm of cheddars.
a typical or representative instance or example: His experimentalism and iconoclastic attitude towards the past make Picasso a paradigm of 20th century painting.
Grammar.
a set of forms all of which contain a particular element, especially the set of all inflected forms based on a single stem or theme.
a display in fixed arrangement of such a set, as boy, boy's, boys, boys'.
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How to use paradigm in a sentence
You get all the advantage of a paradigm shift from jQuery to a component-based reactive library for developing cutting-edge interactivity.
Power SEO Friendly Markup With HTML5, CSS3, And Javascript | Detlef Johnson | August 20, 2020 | Search Engine LandLemos believes a culture of data protection could still flourish in Brazil, in a development similar to the paradigm shift that happened after a consumer protection code was introduced in 1990 and people started to exercise their newfound rights.
Brazil is sliding into techno-authoritarianism | Tate Ryan-Mosley | August 19, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewValue has been experiencing a drought so deep and extended that many on Wall Street believe we’ve entered a new paradigm.
The champ’s big comeback: Why beaten-down value stocks are poised to thrive | Shawn Tully | August 18, 2020 | FortuneThe goal of these efforts is essentially to squeeze real-world problems into the paradigm that other machine-learning researchers use to measure performance.
Too many AI researchers think real-world problems are not relevant | Amy Nordrum | August 18, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewI hate to say it, but the current government seems to be trying to take us back to the old paradigm rather than a more sustainable, environmentally-friendly, let’s make agriculture do more on organic and natural processes.
How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Ep. 386 Rebroadcast) | Stephen J. Dubner | August 6, 2020 | Freakonomics
“It was just another assumption based on a paradigm that marginalizes non-heterosexual people,” he writes.
Yep, Korra and Asami Went in the Spirit Portal and Probably Kissed | Melissa Leon | December 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHer new paradigm leads her to carve up shibboleths and heroes alike.
Naomi Klein’s ‘This Changes Everything’ Will Change Nothing | Michael Signer | November 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTKargil is a good paradigm for what a future crisis might look like.
But if “calories-in-calories-out” is a meaningful weight-loss paradigm as the show insists, then plateaus simply are not possible.
‘The Biggest Loser’ Could Be TV’s Most Important Show Ever | Daniela Drake | September 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTo change this paradigm, to move forward, it is critical to look back.
To complete what I said on the verb during the hearing I give here the entire paradigm of the verb in Esperanto.
Esperanto: Hearings before the Committee on Education | Richard Bartholdt and A. ChristenRapid Dominance also means looking to invest in technologies perhaps not fully or currently captured by the Cold War paradigm.
Shock and Awe | Harlan K. UllmanThe orbit of Venus is now almost circular, and it affords an example of the perfect astronomical paradigm.
Astrology | SepharialThis perspective was an essential paradigm shift for nursing knowledge, but essential for study of the caring phenomena.
Nursing as Caring | Anne BoykinIn the empathic paradigm, the subjectivity of the other is "assumed to be as whole and valid as that of the caregiver" (p. 68).
Nursing as Caring | Anne Boykin
British Dictionary definitions for paradigm
/ (ˈpærəˌdaɪm) /
grammar the set of all the inflected forms of a word or a systematic arrangement displaying these forms
a pattern or model
a typical or stereotypical example (esp in the phrase paradigm case)
(in the philosophy of science) a very general conception of the nature of scientific endeavour within which a given enquiry is undertaken
Origin of paradigm
1Derived forms of paradigm
- paradigmatic (ˌpærədɪɡˈmætɪk), adjective
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