schema
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In the more pessimistic schema, Tesla succumbs to competition and margin pressure, the market disregards Optimus in valuations and Robotaxi has slower growth expected.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 8, 2025
Can we apply the same schema to what’s happening in democratic politics?
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2025
Chess players remember the location of pieces on the board using schema, a way of organizing new information in the brain.
From Science Daily ● May 1, 2024
Humans are drawn to animals with babylike features, called “baby schema ” in psychology: big eyes, big heads and soft bodies.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 20, 2023
Lacey, in turn, is sorting items into piles based on an organizational schema only she understands.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
“We believe that unpacking mistakes, learning about our schemas, and forgiving ourselves leads to greater happiness and, yes, making fewer mistakes,” they write.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
The best answer I have is that they're built on what psychologists call schemas.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2022
Most of these problems come from the way that 1950s U.S. and U.K. social perspectives informed how computer schemas were created.
From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2019
The R.C.C., in midtown, is a bustling place, with dozens of dispatchers at consoles, studying two fifty-yard-long real-time schemas of the subway system on huge, curving walls.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 2, 2018
Studies have shown that racial schemas operate not only as part of conscious, rational deliberations, but also automatically—without conscious awareness or intent.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
“It finally occurred to me to stop translating these strange disciplinary languages into technical schemata, and instead simply to learn them on their own terms,” he wrote.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 12, 2021
I’m never quite sure if she toils for hours devising schemata to impose order upon chaos or if she just concocts genius hypotheses on the fly.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2018
Artists do in fact have some power to change or reinforce our cognitive schemata.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2016
For example, the term anxiety could evoke schemata of task failure, a parent’s harsh criticisms, losing money, a social blunder, the disruption of a satisfying relationship, or the health of a parent.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2013
The fire seemed to live, go down, or die according to its own schemata.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
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Paper Towns
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The New Jim Crow
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