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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

During this time, Aimee was developing her own religious schema — she preached joy and love; said that everyone could connect to God personally; and that Jesus was about to reappear on earth.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 24, 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

I had the idea of developing a similar dialogue schema and applying it to sales and marketing processes.

From Slate Oct. 28, 2023

But then who was the Jack that loved and buried Sophie; was he just another version in the schema, or the true soul, or could he have been both?

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

“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

“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

One problem trailing the strategy of beginning with intuitions about fruitful semantic concepts rather than puzzling phenomena is that the different schemata linked to a concept confer divergent meanings to the same term.

From Salon Jun. 2, 2013

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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