schemata

Example Sentences

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As Bohannon writes: “The ideas that human beings have about reality — what it’s made of, how it works, how we all fit into grander schemata — can change fundamentally.”

From Salon • Oct. 11, 2023

“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

The fire seemed to live, go down, or die according to its own schemata.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison