'paradigm' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a model, theory, or frame of reference, and can be used in various contexts. For example, you might say "The current health care paradigm is not working for everyone."
While terrorism does not fit entirely comfortably within the war paradigm, which the west developed using nation states as the key actors, what Awlaki did for a living was a far cry from robbing the neighborhood bank.
It is a paradigm of excellence and endurance and intelligence.
I don't think the major corporations have realised that the entertainment paradigm has actually shifted because the net can provide the entertainment community a means of getting their product out to a huge audience without huge distribution costs".
The usual zombie paradigm is similar to vampires, thus the same mathematical logic applies.
The rise and fall of Polly Peck always seemed an uncomfortable paradigm for the Thatcher years of boom and bust, and not only because of the rare talent that Mr Nadir himself had developed for making friends in high places, including her government.
It is now clear beyond dispute that the United States, on a bipartisan basis, fully embraces the paradigm that the threat of international terrorism is a matter of war, not a matter of law enforcement.
This is the same man who, it is said, provided the paradigm for a generation of swaggering, insouciant Britpoppers.
But Goldman argues the trades were not difficult for the fund's "financially sophisticated" senior bankers to understand and has dismissed the claim as "a paradigm of buyer's remorse".
"I think Slack is the last successful product of the old paradigm, where you're writing in Microsoft Word, storing it in Dropbox, and talking about it in emails or Slack.
But that whole paradigm doesn't work in mobile, and certainly doesn't work in wearables.
Like the ancient stories of Greek gods, random violence and cruelty were part of the paradigm.
