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paradigm
noun
a standard or typical example
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ˈpæ.ɹə.daɪm
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noun
a standard or typical example
“he is the prototype of good breeding”
noun
the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time
“he framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigm”
noun
the class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another)
noun
systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word
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he is the prototype of good breeding
he provided America with an image of the good father
he framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigm
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