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- noun Plural form of
paradigm .
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Examples
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He said they could be safe from his ideological wing and feel good about themselves, according to certain paradigms carefully cultivated by the BBC and its cultural fifth column.
Archive 2008-01-06 Newmania 2008
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He said they could be safe from his ideological wing and feel good about themselves, according to certain paradigms carefully cultivated by the BBC and its cultural fifth column.
How Boring Am I ? Newmania 2008
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But then come the historical relics, common nouns that followed non-productive means of pluralization, like umlaut (mouse to mice, for example) or Greek/Latin paradigms (antennae, data, radii, and the like).
Preposterous Apostrophes II: Pluralization « Motivated Grammar 2007
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She is a good contrast to those who pine for pre-colonial days and exposes the ills of both pre and post-colonial paradigms from a Western feminist perspective.
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These paradigms are clear examples of an archetype; in short paradigms are basic assumptions of a pattern.
Iraq and the Shifting Paradigms in American Foreign Policy 2006
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"Tradition-shattering complements to the tradition-bound activity of normal science", is reported as having said that new assumptions - "paradigms" - require the reconstruction of prior assumptions and the re-evaluation of prior facts.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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"Tradition-shattering complements to the tradition-bound activity of normal science", is reported as having said that new assumptions - "paradigms" - require the reconstruction of prior assumptions and the re-evaluation of prior facts.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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a shift in paradigms and the replacement of one circle of cultural influences by another.
Children Playing by the Sea: the Dynamics of Appropriation in the Brazilian Romantic Novel 2006
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The sine qua non of public comparability is agreement between opponents of the success and failures of paradigms as viewed within paradigms.
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This is the major impetus (at least as I see it) for the major shift in paradigms.
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