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something or someone serving as a basis for imitation
The thesis paper provides a new paradigm for educational practices.
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Recent Examples of paradigm
But the duo soon realized that the existing hardware paradigms — keyboards, screens, and apps — weren’t enough.
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Shannon Carroll, Quartz, 22 May 2025
The very revolutions in data collection and technology that have necessitated a new statistical paradigm will be useful in creating it.
—Diane Coyle, Foreign Affairs, 16 May 2025
There is an air of homecoming and of meeting today’s mainstream dance-pop paradigm.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 16 May 2025
The test has become a useful paradigm for scientists interested in studying the various factors that might influence one's ability to delay gratification, thereby promoting social cooperation.
—Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 15 May 2025
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Shannon Carroll, Quartz, 22 May 2025
The very revolutions in data collection and technology that have necessitated a new statistical paradigm will be useful in creating it.
—Diane Coyle, Foreign Affairs, 16 May 2025
There is an air of homecoming and of meeting today’s mainstream dance-pop paradigm.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 16 May 2025
The test has become a useful paradigm for scientists interested in studying the various factors that might influence one's ability to delay gratification, thereby promoting social cooperation.
—Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 15 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for paradigm
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For example, the family of Martin Gutierrez, whose body was found in the lake in 2018, before the media frenzy around Lady Bird Lake, believe he was drugged while on a night out.—
Sophie Clark,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 June 2025
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Mubi is, for example, a co-producer on the new Jim Jarmusch movie, Father Mother Sister Brother, which stars Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Tom Waits, Charlotte Rampling, Indya Moore, and Luka Sabbat.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
6 June 2025
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“Paradigm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paradigm. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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