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    paradigm
    /ˈparədʌɪm/

    noun

    • 1. a typical example or pattern of something; a pattern or model: "society's paradigm of the ‘ideal woman’"
    • 2. a set of linguistic items that form mutually exclusive choices in particular syntactic roles: "English determiners form a paradigm: we can say ‘a book’ or ‘his book’ but not ‘a his book’"

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