How to Use schema in a Sentence

schema

noun
  • In this schema, the teams are: Bolsonaro on one side and Congress and the Supreme Court on the other.
    Vincent Bevins, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2020
  • Freedom Plaza placed a map of L’Enfant Plan amid streets drawn by that schema.
    Washington Post, 19 May 2021
  • Douthat came of age during the culture wars of the 1990s, and the culture-war schema pervades his work.
    Paul Elie, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Updating the gender schema for the database was an easy fix.
    Rida Qadri, Wired, 11 Nov. 2021
  • In their schema, success is proof of virtue and people are to blame for their own misfortune.
    Michelle Goldberg, Slate Magazine, 2 May 2017
  • His team talked through its data plan, but refused to release the schema for her team to review.
    Washington Post, 15 July 2021
  • Piketty tries to apply this schema to many societies across time and space.
    Paul Krugman, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2020
  • Some of those were licensing deals with Mattel and some are brands that made their own decisions to be part of the color schema of the movie.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 23 July 2023
  • And where does that leave the rest of us non-Black people of color, rendered invisible in this schema?
    Hari Kunzru, The New York Review of Books, 8 Sep. 2020
  • The above is merely a rough sketch of Murnane’s all-encompassing schema.
    Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 4 May 2018
  • Samsung has also changed the naming schema of its Galaxy Watch series again.
    Patrick Moorhead, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Kanye West’s conversion has followed the same basic schema.
    John Hirschauer, National Review, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Yet figuring out how women and artists of color fit into the genre’s schema has remained fraught.
    Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 7 June 2021
  • Visually, kawaii is tied to what researchers call baby schema—a large head, round face, and big eyes—but kawaii involves the other senses too.
    Kristin Wong, Wired, 25 Dec. 2020
  • The two most striking paintings are, within the confines of Lu’s standard schema, quite different.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Just make sure to pay attention to the US sizing schema, which is slightly different, and pick whichever color suits you!
    Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 2 June 2022
  • This schema tends to develop from childhoods where parents often kept secrets and lied.
    Alex Wagner, SPIN, 26 May 2023
  • Data was extracted from one or more sources, then stored, transformed and restructured as needed to match the target schema.
    Sachin Smotra, Forbes, 4 May 2021
  • The moment for concluding happens when someone seizes time, and this act is the most subjective moment in the process of unfolding time thus far in Lacan’s schema.
    Jamieson Webster, The New York Review of Books, 24 Apr. 2020
  • The pressure Black women feel and internalize to be strong and resilient in all situations is sometimes called the strong Black woman schema.
    Aiyana Ishmael, refinery29.com, 19 Mar. 2021
  • To be effective, blockchain projects require a common data schema that requires key participants to be on board with.
    Shruthi Rao, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023
  • If the idea is that life in occupied France was more complicated than a simple good-and-evil schema, then these people and their actions should be able to genuinely surprise you.
    Adrian Daub, The New Republic, 19 June 2019
  • This schema, called a Rockoon, was first developed in 1949 by James Van Allen, who used the technique to discover how the earth’s atmosphere traps space radiation.
    Troy Farah, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2018
  • Researchers have been trying to better understand that phenomenon, called body schema, for a while.
    Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 2 Nov. 2018
  • Each node contains a description of a subject, predicate, object and other schema types.
    Ehsan Jahandarpour, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
  • An accident, in this schema, is what happens when the holes in several layers of cheese line up perfectly: an aperture of atrocity.
    Rhoda Feng, The New Republic, 6 Apr. 2022
  • No redemption is possible, but only a schema of never-ending debts and payments.
    Joshua Mitchell, National Review, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Even more intriguing is that Apple may implement this new design schema on the upcoming iPhone 14 Pro models.
    Yoni Heisler, BGR, 25 Mar. 2022
  • After all, the three-color schema developed in Detroit in the 1920s based on a British system for railroad traffic, has been universally used for over a century.
    Amanda Shendruk, Quartz, 23 Apr. 2021
  • That’s usually a key part of any time travel schema, because traveling into the future can just seem like, well, very efficient waiting.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 10 Feb. 2021

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