How to Use paradigm in a Sentence

paradigm

noun
  • Her recent book provides us with a new paradigm for modern biography.
  • And the idea of Black and white races comes out of a racist paradigm.
    Star Tribune, 15 Sep. 2020
  • And so the whole paradigm has shifted in the past 20 years.
    Recode Staff, Recode, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Tzanetos: The core of the challenge here is that the paradigm has changed.
    IEEE Spectrum, 8 Apr. 2023
  • No two-loss team has made the cut in the eight years of the CFP, and the Pac-12 won’t be the conference to change the paradigm.
    oregonlive, 23 Oct. 2022
  • The man at the front of the room did not act like somebody riding the crest of a paradigm shift.
    David Murphy, Philly.com, 20 June 2017
  • If the Dolphins win this game, the whole paradigm shifts.
    Keven Lerner, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Of course, the long-war paradigm has pitfalls of its own.
    Assaf Orion, Foreign Affairs, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Maybe brides and their moms fight to distract us from the paradigm shift.
    Karen Stabiner, New York Times, 31 May 2018
  • And so the totems were born of the group’s desire to step away from the paper-swatch paint store paradigm.
    Asad Syrkett, Curbed, 30 Nov. 2018
  • Purdue is the paradigm for the rest of the conference right now.
    Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star, 28 Jan. 2018
  • The users sit there dazzled by the paradigm shift in their mode of thinking.
    New York Times, 22 June 2018
  • That’s kind of the whole point of it -- to really get away from that paradigm.
    Michael Sundius, Billboard, 31 May 2018
  • The ordeal has led to a paradigm shift in her household.
    Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE.com, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Yet flipping the script on the old guy-young gal paradigm has taken a long, long time.
    Christine Dolen, miamiherald, 22 Jan. 2018
  • The audience is ready, the old paradigm is on the ropes, and everyone wants to hang out with the cool kids, so maybe now is the time.
    Kevin O'Marah, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Kylo Ren wants to pull Rey out of this whole paradigm, man.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2019
  • The Last of Us Part One, on the other hand, is incapable of shifting the paradigm.
    WIRED, 3 Sep. 2022
  • The sheer hugeness of the app is its own paradigm-shifting story.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 4 Feb. 2022
  • But the mental health toll of the pandemic may not fit this paradigm.
    Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 8 June 2020
  • Few have done more to change the climate paradigm than Rhiana Gunn-Wright.
    How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2022
  • How do Covid and long Covid, what some have called mass disabling events, shift that paradigm?
    Isabella Cueto, STAT, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Researchers agree that soil science is in the midst of a classic paradigm shift.
    Quanta Magazine, 2 Aug. 2021
  • Still, the door to a new paradigm and a tennis boom was definitively ajar.
    Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2018
  • Now with a paradigm shift in consumer habits, what does the road to recovery look like?
    Rebecca Souw, Variety, 19 May 2022
  • So how does a below-the-megastar-radar artist or band survive the new paradigm?
    John Kehe, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2018
  • On the paradigm shifts that need to happen to protect survivors.
    Glamour, 11 Nov. 2018
  • Shah points to the massive paradigm shift for pregnancy in the workplace to guide us in closing the care gap for menopause.
    Anna Oakes, Quartz, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Even having a crumb of control would feel so good in the current paradigm.
    Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, Wired, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Kesterson sees a paradigm shift in how people here buy and eat.
    Eric Velasco, al, 13 Aug. 2019

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