tabula rasa
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The conceptual idea around this is that it’s growing out of something, as opposed to tabula rasa, a new building.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2025
Somewhere inside a tabula rasa passed off as an office space, a diligent worker is rewarded with a five-minute "dance experience."
From Salon • Jan. 18, 2025
The top is a tabula rasa of post-pandemic young adulthood, ready to absorb and reflect the 2023 equivalent of those aforementioned references: It looks like TikTok, tastes like espresso martinis and sounds like Dua Lipa.
From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2023
Classical AI research—particularly the branch known as connectionism, the basis for artificial neural networks—adheres to the outside-in, tabula rasa model.
From Scientific American • May 31, 2022
It was not their purpose to make a tabula rasa of the old structure which had slowly grown stone by stone, statute by statute and to rebuild entirely on new plans.
From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Chinard, Gilbert
