How to Use paradigm in a Sentence

paradigm

noun
  • Her recent book provides us with a new paradigm for modern biography.
  • And the idea of Black and white races comes out of a racist paradigm.
    Star Tribune, 15 Sep. 2020
  • The man at the front of the room did not act like somebody riding the crest of a paradigm shift.
    David Murphy, Philly.com, 20 June 2017
  • Maybe brides and their moms fight to distract us from the paradigm shift.
    Karen Stabiner, New York Times, 31 May 2018
  • Purdue is the paradigm for the rest of the conference right now.
    Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star, 28 Jan. 2018
  • The users sit there dazzled by the paradigm shift in their mode of thinking.
    New York Times, 22 June 2018
  • The ordeal has led to a paradigm shift in her household.
    Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE.com, 17 Mar. 2022
  • If the Dolphins win this game, the whole paradigm shifts.
    Keven Lerner, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Of course, the long-war paradigm has pitfalls of its own.
    Assaf Orion, Foreign Affairs, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Tzanetos: The core of the challenge here is that the paradigm has changed.
    IEEE Spectrum, 8 Apr. 2023
  • And so the totems were born of the group’s desire to step away from the paper-swatch paint store paradigm.
    Asad Syrkett, Curbed, 30 Nov. 2018
  • But the mental health toll of the pandemic may not fit this paradigm.
    Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 8 June 2020
  • That’s kind of the whole point of it -- to really get away from that paradigm.
    Michael Sundius, Billboard, 31 May 2018
  • Researchers agree that soil science is in the midst of a classic paradigm shift.
    Quanta Magazine, 2 Aug. 2021
  • On the paradigm shifts that need to happen to protect survivors.
    Glamour, 11 Nov. 2018
  • Kesterson sees a paradigm shift in how people here buy and eat.
    Eric Velasco, al, 13 Aug. 2019
  • And the paradigm of a thing to be philosophical about is death.
    Jim Holt, New York Times Book Review, 15 Feb. 2009
  • Even having a crumb of control would feel so good in the current paradigm.
    Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, Wired, 1 Mar. 2022
  • The sheer hugeness of the app is its own paradigm-shifting story.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 4 Feb. 2022
  • And so the whole paradigm has shifted in the past 20 years.
    Recode Staff, Recode, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Yet flipping the script on the old guy-young gal paradigm has taken a long, long time.
    Christine Dolen, miamiherald, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Still, the door to a new paradigm and a tennis boom was definitively ajar.
    Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2018
  • Alex takes these paradigms and bends them, to large effect.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Now with a paradigm shift in consumer habits, what does the road to recovery look like?
    Rebecca Souw, Variety, 19 May 2022
  • Even in the early days, women were changing the paradigm.
    Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2023
  • The rise of this new paradigm of feeling has some benefits.
    Paula Marantz Cohen, WSJ, 4 May 2018
  • Then there are the folks who are doing far too well under the existing paradigm to want to fix it much.
    John Perry Barlow, WIRED, 1 June 1996
  • The collapse of an old paradigm makes room for different ideas.
    Samuel Goldman, The Week, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Wang is betting that the same paradigm will hold true for his batteries.
    Time, 23 Nov. 2022
  • This is clearly a new paradigm for how these outbreaks start.
    Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, 12 Mar. 2021

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