paradigms

Example Sentences

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Paradigms never shift back, precisely, but they do shift again, and fickly.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2020

“What’s changed here is that people said basta, enough. Paradigms are falling. And these interior changes are propelling new practices in civic society.”

From The New Yorker • Nov. 12, 2014

New York State Supreme Court Upholds Zuccotti Park Eviction Community's "Paradigms of Human Memory:" A salute to the most insanely self-referential 22 minutes in sitcom history.

From Slate • Nov. 15, 2011

Paradigms is the word he uses for those overreaching models and theories according to which each new era of science conducts its normal, day-to-day operations.

From Time Magazine Archive

Paradigms flourish; some then die, and others get relegated to introductory textbooks.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton