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Which scientist challenged a dominant astronomical paradigm after observing Jupiter's moons?

paradigm

[par-uh-dahym, -dim] / ˈpær əˌdaɪm, -dɪm /


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“We’re challenging the buttoned-up paradigm of burying the dead. We’re keeping our dead alive through art, through talking about them always.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

But to hear Florence Pugh deliver it as Cathy’s belief, and the establishing paradigm of Kazan’s limited series, changes things.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

"In the paradigm we propose, portable ultrasound devices usable by any healthcare professional will become the standard tool for atherosclerosis screening from the early stages of adult life," Dr. Ibáñez said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

"I thought it's a completely and absolutely different paradigm than how I think, how I work," she added.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

He argued then that the time had come for racial justice advocates to shift from a civil rights to a human rights paradigm, and that the real work of movement building had only just begun.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

Since then, in rare public statements, Sutskever has publicly doubted whether simply scaling up current paradigms is sufficient.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

Higher energy costs, higher interest rates and shifting economic paradigms from the AI-investment cycle are creating both winners and losers that the credit markets struggle to discount adequately.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 31, 2026

Drury wants us to question not only our eyes but our paradigms for viewing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026

"There has to be a change in paradigms that are at the foundation of how we run our society and the kinds of laws we create," he said.

From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2025

Today “Hofstede’s Dimensions” are among the most widely used paradigms in crosscultural psychology.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell


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