paradigm
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I must add that the book title seems forced -- partly because paradigm is often properly pronounced with a short i-- and is not original.
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- noun One that serves as a pattern or model.
- noun A set or list of all the inflectional forms of a word or of one of its grammatical categories: the paradigm of an irregular verb.
- noun A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them, especially in an intellectual discipline.
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I must add that the book title seems forced -- partly because paradigm is often properly pronounced with a short i-- and is not original.
— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 4 -
Normal science under a paradigm is the normal state of a science and of the community of researchers who constitute it.
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An extension of the image paradigm is obvious: females experience the most profound and physically realized "transformation" upon puberty (and thus the biologically imposed onset of menstruation cycles), where the pronounced threshold between girlhood and womanhood is twofold, and much more definitive than any similar male experience.
— Larbear's Aoxomoxoa Thesis -
Is it an embrace of the realization that the holistic fabric of infinite cyclic paradigm is unembracable?
— Larbear's Aoxomoxoa Thesis - "The North Pole!" she exclaimed, surprised. — Phaze Doubt
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- Middle English, example, from Late Latin paradīgma, from Greek paradeigma, from paradeiknunai, to compare : para-, alongside; see para-1 + deiknunai, to show; see deik- in Indo-European roots.
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/ (părˈə-dīmˌ, -dĭmˌ)/
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