Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In the form of or by way of an example.
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- adverb In a way or to an extent that is
paradigmatic
Etymologies
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Examples
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The more paradigmatically story-like the representational content of a work, the more comfortable we are classing it as a work of fiction.
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More Lawsuits Target 'All-Natural' Foods "Seeking to co-opt the goodwill of 'sugar' and even changing the high-fructose corn syrup name by calling it a kind of sugar... is paradigmatically false and misleading," reads the sugar companies' complaint.
'Corn Sugar' Goes On Trial As Suit Debates High-Fructose Corn Syrup Ashby Jones 2011
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Thus when Herzog opens Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle "Every man for himself and God against all", blandly known in English as The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser with the paradigmatically Nazi image of a field of waving corn, it is a deliberate provocation.
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In what sense do you see my view of Scripture as paradigmatically different from theirs?
The Inerrancy of Ecclesiastes 9:2-6 James F. McGrath 2010
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The notion of cancer as an affliction that belongs paradigmatically to the twentieth century is reminiscent, as Susan Sontag argued so powerfully in her book Illness as Metaphor, of another disease once considered emblematic of another era: tuberculosis in the nineteenth century.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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It has tried to keep the homepage simple, free as it is of clutter and distractions, and has not shown any inclination to be a portal, such as AOL, paradigmatically, tried to do.
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It has tried to keep the homepage simple, free as it is of clutter and distractions, and has not shown any inclination to be a portal, such as AOL, paradigmatically, tried to do.
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It has tried to keep the homepage simple, free as it is of clutter and distractions, and has not shown any inclination to be a portal, such as AOL, paradigmatically, tried to do.
Anis Shivani: "Don't Be Evil": How Larry Page and Sergey Brin Really Think and Should We Worry About Google's Dominance Anis Shivani 2010
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The notion of cancer as an affliction that belongs paradigmatically to the twentieth century is reminiscent, as Susan Sontag argued so powerfully in her book Illness as Metaphor, of another disease once considered emblematic of another era: tuberculosis in the nineteenth century.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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The notion of cancer as an affliction that belongs paradigmatically to the twentieth century is reminiscent, as Susan Sontag argued so powerfully in her book Illness as Metaphor, of another disease once considered emblematic of another era: tuberculosis in the nineteenth century.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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