dominant paradigm

collocation in English

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dominant
adjective
uk
/ˈdɒm.ɪ.nənt/
us
/ˈdɑː.mə.nənt/
more important, strong, or noticeable than anything else of the ...
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paradigm
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpær.ə.daɪm/
us
/ˈper.ə.daɪm/
a model of something, or a very clear and typical example ...
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(Definition ofdominantandparadigmfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Co-operation, or at least coexistence, has been thedominantparadigmin considering relations between classes.
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For many years, the medical model of disability was thedominantparadigmthrough which disability was discussed and understood.
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But it has, to date, failed to become thedominantparadigm, either in the legal academy or in legal adjudication.
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Western societies, thedominantparadigmfor understanding and controlling human sexuality derived from religion.
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Thedominantparadigmin the literature for drawing this line has been a distinction between treatment and enhancement, based on standard medical practices.
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Research on task-switching, adominantparadigmin executive control, has revealed complex and some apparently counterintuitive results.
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As far as the syntax and interpretation of these constructions is concerned, thedominantparadigmis the so-called discourse configurational approach.
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In fact, expressions of fandom can contradict norms set by thedominantparadigm.
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Thedominantparadigmindicated that smoking was innocuous and acceptable among refined people.
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He convincingly argues that pursuing thedominantparadigmcan actually be counterproductive to the usefulness of constitutional law to promote justice.
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He goes on to claim, however, that at present it would be difficult to amass stakeholder agreement around thisdominantparadigm.
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Thedominantparadigmin theoretical linguistics is still generative grammar.
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Alternative paradigms may exist at the same time as thedominantparadigm.
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Here again - and sometimes even more strongly than in liberal intergovernmentalist perspectives - politics is considered as thedominantparadigm.
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If this happens, it will eventually challenge the legitimacy of the paradigm and defenders of thedominantparadigmadding new policy instruments.
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The cognitive behavioral approach that resulted remains thedominantparadigmin clinical psychology today.
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Constructivism has emerged in recent years as adominantparadigmin education and has had a major intellectual impact on the development of pedagogy, especially in mathematics and science.
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In the 1920s, behaviorism became thedominantparadigm, and remained so until the 1950s.
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Their structural contingency theory was thedominantparadigmof organizational structural theories for most of the 1970s.
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He became a strong proponent of the new ideas of mechanised warfare, seeing it as a new anddominantparadigmin military strategy.
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