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Paradigm¶

A word people who want to sound intellectual™ use for “a way things are done”.
  • https://oed.com/view/Entry/137329
  • https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?&year_start=1950&year_end=2019&content=paradigm
  • https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=paradigm
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