How to Use paradigm in a Sentence

paradigm

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  • 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
  • And so the whole paradigm has shifted in the past 20 years.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Tzanetos: The core of the challenge here is that the paradigm has changed.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Apr. 2023
  • No two-loss team has made the cut in the eight years of the CFP, and the Pac-12 won’t be the conference to change the paradigm.
    — oregonlive, 23 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Maybe brides and their moms fight to distract us from the paradigm shift.
    — Karen Stabiner, New York Times, 31 May 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • That’s kind of the whole point of it -- to really get away from that paradigm.
    — Michael Sundius, Billboard, 31 May 2018
  • The ordeal has led to a paradigm shift in her household.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE.com, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Jeep didn't spend the last decade thinking of ways to upend the big-SUV paradigm.
    — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 21 Oct. 2021
  • The scene with Tony as a kid, where Dickie comes to talk to him in his bedroom, is a paradigm for the whole movie.
    — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Yet flipping the script on the old guy-young gal paradigm has taken a long, long time.
    — Christine Dolen, miamiherald, 22 Jan. 2018
  • The audience is ready, the old paradigm is on the ropes, and everyone wants to hang out with the cool kids, so maybe now is the time.
    — Kevin O'Marah, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Kylo Ren wants to pull Rey out of this whole paradigm, man.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2019
  • The Last of Us Part One, on the other hand, is incapable of shifting the paradigm.
    — WIRED, 3 Sep. 2022
  • No matter the earliness of the hour or the length of the line, the staff is all smiles and a paradigm of efficiency.
    — Nevin Martell, Washington Post, 28 July 2022
  • The sheer hugeness of the app is its own paradigm-shifting story.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 4 Feb. 2022
  • But the mental health toll of the pandemic may not fit this paradigm.
    — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 8 June 2020
  • Few have done more to change the climate paradigm than Rhiana Gunn-Wright.
    — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2022
  • How do Covid and long Covid, what some have called mass disabling events, shift that paradigm?
    — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Researchers agree that soil science is in the midst of a classic paradigm shift.
    — Quanta Magazine, 2 Aug. 2021
  • Still, the door to a new paradigm and a tennis boom was definitively ajar.
    — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2018
  • But the company’s new body wash and body lotion flip the script on that paradigm.
    — Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 12 June 2024
  • In the leading through paradigm, the soul, heart, and mind of leadership are three dimensions in one.
    — Kim B. Clark, jonathan R. Clark, erin E. Clark, Harvard Business Review, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The question is whether this new paradigm will prove more hospitable than legacy media was, in her mind, to the work of doing reporting about the Internet.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2024

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