paradigm
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Both stressed the importance of dialogue, with Xi invoking the concept of the Thucydides trap, a historical paradigm that holds that rising powers inevitably clash with established ones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 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
“We’ve had a major paradigm change, a major regime shift in the capital cycle. The capital cycle was funding financial engineering, now the capital cycle is funding a new tectonic life-changing technology,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
In the old investment paradigm, government bonds acted as shock absorbers, with prices rising and yields falling when the economy takes a hit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
The Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole is a paradigm, a human institution possessed of a life of its own, self-regenerating, touched all around by human meddle but constantly improved, embellished by it.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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Unlike some of his earlier books, “The American Way of Killing” doesn’t start or end with clever paradigms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 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
They are suggesting robot workforces will rise to outnumber human populations, godlike smartglasses will replace iPhones as new computer paradigms and AI data centers will expand to outer space.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 7, 2025
"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
What is striking about these intellectual tools and cultural values is that they have proved to have a history quite unlike that of paradigms.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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