How to Use paradigm in a Sentence

paradigm

noun
  • Her recent book provides us with a new paradigm for modern biography.
  • Still, the stage is set for a new paradigm.
    — Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 22 June 2026
  • And the idea of Black and white races comes out of a racist paradigm.
    — Star Tribune, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Maybe brides and their moms fight to distract us from the paradigm shift.
    — Karen Stabiner, New York Times, 31 May 2018
  • Be open to new ideas, paradigms, and techniques.
    — Michael Ashley, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • What is clear is that attempting to stick to old paradigms will not work.
    — Marwan Muasher, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Kesterson sees a paradigm shift in how people here buy and eat.
    — Eric Velasco, al, 13 Aug. 2019
  • The users sit there dazzled by the paradigm shift in their mode of thinking.
    — New York Times, 22 June 2018
  • But last year, across two LPs, twigs broke even her own paradigm.
    — Dan Stahl, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
  • That’s kind of the whole point of it -- to really get away from that paradigm.
    — Michael Sundius, Billboard, 31 May 2018
  • Yet flipping the script on the old guy-young gal paradigm has taken a long, long time.
    — Christine Dolen, miamiherald, 22 Jan. 2018
  • The man at the front of the room did not act like somebody riding the crest of a paradigm shift.
    — David Murphy, Philly.com, 20 June 2017
  • And so the totems were born of the group’s desire to step away from the paper-swatch paint store paradigm.
    — Asad Syrkett, Curbed, 30 Nov. 2018
  • One part of the problem may have been just adjusting to the new paradigm.
    — Autumn Alvarez, The Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Even having a crumb of control would feel so good in the current paradigm.
    — Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, Wired, 1 Mar. 2022
  • But the mental health toll of the pandemic may not fit this paradigm.
    — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 8 June 2020
  • Still, the door to a new paradigm and a tennis boom was definitively ajar.
    — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2018
  • But the company’s new body wash and body lotion flip the script on that paradigm.
    — Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 12 June 2024
  • Researchers agree that soil science is in the midst of a classic paradigm shift.
    — Quanta Magazine, 2 Aug. 2021
  • Now with a paradigm shift in consumer habits, what does the road to recovery look like?
    — Rebecca Souw, Variety, 19 May 2022
  • Purdue is the paradigm for the rest of the conference right now.
    — Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star, 28 Jan. 2018
  • The if-then paradigm needs to be simplified.
    — Michael Isaacson, Sun Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2026
  • LinkCraft changes this paradigm.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 28 Oct. 2025
  • So how does a below-the-megastar-radar artist or band survive the new paradigm?
    — John Kehe, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2018
  • The sheer hugeness of the app is its own paradigm-shifting story.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 4 Feb. 2022
  • New paradigm — That’s a clean break from the current way of doing things.
    — Billy Perrigo, Time, 15 Jan. 2026
  • What role do health systems play in beginning to shift that paradigm?
    — Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
  • On the paradigm shifts that need to happen to protect survivors.
    — Glamour, 11 Nov. 2018
  • That paradigm is shifting fast.
    — Shyam Ravindranathan, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • How do Covid and long Covid, what some have called mass disabling events, shift that paradigm?
    — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 6 Feb. 2023

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