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paradigmatically

Variant of paradigm

noun

    1. a pattern, example, or model
    2. an overall concept accepted by most people in an intellectual community, as those in one of the natural sciences, because of its effectiveness in explaining a complex process, idea, or set of data
  1. Gram. an example of a declension or conjugation, giving all the inflectional forms of a word

Origin: Fr paradigme < LL paradigma < Gr paradeigma < para-, para- + deigma, example < deiknynai, to show: for IE base see diction

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