paradigmatic
Example Sentences
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Mr. Dershowitz, whose brother’s daughter-in-law has worked with the group on alternative sentencing, called the case “a paradigmatic trial penalty case.”
From New York Times
That open mind extended to Bundy, the paradigmatic American serial killer, a deeply manipulative man who propagated an image of a “normal” and suave charmer.
From The Guardian
The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, a paradigmatic liberal, is among the Capitol’s main enthusiast but there are pockets of conservative support, too.
From New York Times
Yet Ritchie fails to acknowledge that even in what we might consider paradigmatic breakthroughs, scientists have mostly not followed such norms.
From Nature
Across the southernmost fields of Storm King, Mark di Suvero’s titanic steel articulations remain the paradigmatic sculptures of Storm King, their abstract concatenations of beams and panels towering majestically over the grassland.
From New York Times
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