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schema

[skee-muh] / ˈski mə /


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In the more pessimistic schema, Tesla succumbs to competition and margin pressure, the market disregards Optimus in valuations and Robotaxi has slower growth expected.

From MarketWatch Dec. 8, 2025

Can we apply the same schema to what’s happening in democratic politics?

From Slate Jul. 14, 2025

Chess players remember the location of pieces on the board using schema, a way of organizing new information in the brain.

From Science Daily May 1, 2024

“You have this very tight, well worn schema that we are adult colleagues who are going out to talk,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 30, 2024

Lacey, in turn, is sorting items into piles based on an organizational schema only she understands.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green

“We believe that unpacking mistakes, learning about our schemas, and forgiving ourselves leads to greater happiness and, yes, making fewer mistakes,” they write.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 27, 2026

The two college students theorize everything; their wide-ranging conversations take on the ambitious task of deconstructing conventional social categories and relationship schemas — the wife, the mistress, the friend, the older man, etc.

From Salon May 24, 2022

Most of these problems come from the way that 1950s U.S. and U.K. social perspectives informed how computer schemas were created.

From Slate Oct. 23, 2019

The R.C.C., in midtown, is a bustling place, with dozens of dispatchers at consoles, studying two fifty-yard-long real-time schemas of the subway system on huge, curving walls.

From The New Yorker Jul. 2, 2018

Studies have shown that racial schemas operate not only as part of conscious, rational deliberations, but also automatically—without conscious awareness or intent.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

As Bohannon writes: “The ideas that human beings have about reality — what it’s made of, how it works, how we all fit into grander schemata — can change fundamentally.”

From Salon Oct. 11, 2023

“It finally occurred to me to stop translating these strange disciplinary languages into technical schemata, and instead simply to learn them on their own terms,” he wrote.

From Washington Post Aug. 12, 2021

I’m never quite sure if she toils for hours devising schemata to impose order upon chaos or if she just concocts genius hypotheses on the fly.

From Slate Oct. 26, 2018

Artists do in fact have some power to change or reinforce our cognitive schemata.

From New York Times Aug. 2, 2016

The fire seemed to live, go down, or die according to its own schemata.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison




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