paradigmatically
- adverb
- /ˌpærəˈdaɪɡmətɪkli/
- Formal
- When solving the math problem, she chose to think paradigmatically, exploring different methods before settling on one.
Examples
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One's nearest and dearest are equally to be considered "strangers" in this context, when they are, for all other intents and purposes, paradigmatically not so.
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There is no single universal way to abstract knowledge or to express paradigmatically one's worldview.
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The critical aim of feminist analysis was to provide an account of paradigmatically "oppressed women."
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Courts consider land use to be a paradigmatically "local" matter and afford local governments wide-ranging home-rule authority with respect to land use.
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" The more one seeks to show oneself worthy of respect for one's abilities and hard work, the more one must distance oneself from those who paradigmatically lack those qualities: the poor."
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Weil's theories about the transfer of energy through work, paradigmatically the agricultural work associated with the production of food, allowed Weil to draw the conclusion that through certain types of physical labor, the substance of the worker's body quite literally passed into the products of her work (grain or other foodstuffs), and from there into the bodies of the hungry.
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As the doctor of grace has paradigmatically shaped the discussion of agency and sovereignty in Western theological discourse, so also his trinitarian logic is prototypical and equally indispensable.
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Benton's version, like Cochran's, is built on the black ballad form and incorporates some of the most paradigmatically traditional verses and refrains of the "weevil songs."
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34 The sociological jurists' critique of the Court's majority opinion in Lochner v. New York, 35 which they viewed as paradigmatically mechanical, was itself paradigmatically modernist.
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It should create a rebuttable presumption favoring enforceability, given that bargained-for exchanges paradigmatically commodify the very things that are bargained for.
Academic text (2018)
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Surface Forms
Morphology
paradigmatically = paradigmatic (transparent) = paradigm + ally
Formed by a regular adverbial derivation from the adjective 'paradigmatic', so the meaning follows predictably from the base.
Etymology
Paradigmatically comes from paradigm, an old Greek word that meant 'pattern' or 'example'. In grammar, to look at words paradigmatically is to see them as a group of choices that can replace each other, which explains why the word talks about possible substitutions within a system.