paradigmatic
- adjective
- /ˌpærəˈdaɪɡmətɪk/
- Specialized
- The teacher provided paradigmatic examples of verb conjugation to help the students understand the concept.
- paradigmatic shift
- paradigmatic and syntagmatic
Examples
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A paradigmatic revolution in the status and prestige of the humanities started in the second half of the 1990s.
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The crucial question is whether African American, Latino, Latin, Native, and Asian American agencies can be recognized as paradigmatic elements that set the criteria for the American canon as a whole, as does the Euro-American currently.
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Myths can therefore be both paradigmatic and programmatic.
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The CSEF is used as a "paradigmatic structure" to evaluate students on five required speeches.
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Calls for other forms of transparency, from shared information to inclusive stakeholder engagement, provide a starting place for a paradigmatic shift in accountability.
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Subtest analysis is paradigmatic of ipsative measurement.
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Here, Gibson attempts to uncover the paradigmatic shift towards information systems that came in with the advent of Modernism.
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Because of the dominance of Kte Hamburger's approach, the paradigmatic status that dramatic texts have for a theory of fictionality has long been overlooked.
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For the general public, I think that paranormal phenomena are symbolic and paradigmatic cases of the mysteriousness of the universe and of its failure to be grasped by contemporary rationality.
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If systematic theology is to be historical, it must be faithful to the Christian Scriptures and revelation that speak of Jesus of Nazareth as God's paradigmatic self-revelation; if it is to be contemporary, systematic theology must adequately address contemporary issues and problems.
Academic text (2009)
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Etymology
Paradigmatic comes from the same Greek idea as paradigm, built from para- 'beside' and deigma 'show' or 'example', so it originally meant a 'pattern shown'. So in grammar a paradigmatic change is about the set of model forms or patterns that show how words change.