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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 paradigms
In trying to straddle two opposing paradigms, The Bachelorette ends up satisfying neither.
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Shamira Ibrahim, HollywoodReporter, 25 Mar. 2026
The program’s curriculum will emphasize fluency across programming languages and AI paradigms, as well as the human and societal dimensions of AI.
—Hope Moses, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2026
Otherwise, the sectors that rely on old paradigms of exclusivity will find themselves without an audience.
—Alexa Beck, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2026
As silicon scaling slows and energy costs climb, multiple alternative computing paradigms are emerging in parallel.
—Matthew S Williams, Interesting Engineering, 5 Feb. 2026
Since then design pillars have been experimenting with new ways to draw international collectors that transcend traditional paradigms.
—Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 28 Jan. 2026
With the ascent of social media in the past two decades, new mothers have been confronted by sleeker, shinier paradigms with which to compare themselves unfavorably.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
The result was an alchemical laboratory that encouraged its audience to consider whether sound can be thought of as a material, how its function differs in public versus private spaces, and in what ways it is shaped by social and political paradigms.
—Hung Duong, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
Poets have their aesthetic tastes, and poets reviewed accept that, but aesthetic performances deserve to be greeted in their own paradigms.
—Ange Mlinko, The New York Review of Books, 23 Oct. 2025
Shamira Ibrahim, HollywoodReporter, 25 Mar. 2026
The program’s curriculum will emphasize fluency across programming languages and AI paradigms, as well as the human and societal dimensions of AI.
—Hope Moses, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2026
Otherwise, the sectors that rely on old paradigms of exclusivity will find themselves without an audience.
—Alexa Beck, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2026
As silicon scaling slows and energy costs climb, multiple alternative computing paradigms are emerging in parallel.
—Matthew S Williams, Interesting Engineering, 5 Feb. 2026
Since then design pillars have been experimenting with new ways to draw international collectors that transcend traditional paradigms.
—Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 28 Jan. 2026
With the ascent of social media in the past two decades, new mothers have been confronted by sleeker, shinier paradigms with which to compare themselves unfavorably.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
The result was an alchemical laboratory that encouraged its audience to consider whether sound can be thought of as a material, how its function differs in public versus private spaces, and in what ways it is shaped by social and political paradigms.
—Hung Duong, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
Poets have their aesthetic tastes, and poets reviewed accept that, but aesthetic performances deserve to be greeted in their own paradigms.
—Ange Mlinko, The New York Review of Books, 23 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for paradigms
examples
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The upside could be enormous as the genre has produced a slew of stars; recent examples include Millie Bobbie Brown, Joseph Quinn and Sadie Sink of Stranger Things and Aimee Lou Wood, Emma Mackey and Ncuti Gatwa of Sex Education.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
1 Apr. 2026
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Koenigsegg still plans to build just 300 examples, all of which have already been spoken for.—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
31 Mar. 2026
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“Paradigms.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paradigms. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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