(n.) A work in which the contents of a former work are reduced within a smaller space by curtailment and condensation; a brief summary; an abridgement.
(n.) A compact or condensed representation of anything.
Example Sentences:
(1) The technical view of curriculum epitomized by the Tylerian objectives-based model focuses on measurable, quantifiable outcomes.
(2) Israel’s leader epitomizes what Senator J William Fulbright once called “the arrogance of power”.
(3) The posited codominant alleles represent the first single-locus component in the polygenic complexes creating susceptibility to seizures and epitomizes the small additive effects classically attributed to such genes.
(4) If malnutrition occurs during fetal life, as epitomized by small-for-gestational age infants, the effects on cell-mediated immunity are very significant and long lasting.
(5) Many on the Right still view it as the epitome of all that was irresponsible, idiotic and dangerous about the Sixties, while many on the terminally fractured Left still mourn 1968 as the last great moment of revolutionary possibility.
(6) The situation described by Goddard illustrates the spread of the issue to working parents in a town known until relatively recently as the epitome of the prosperous and aspirational post-Thatcher working class.
(7) What seems the epitome of mundane routine for the average British commuter is being seen as near miraculous in a city where, like Los Angeles, the car is king and the train is nowhere in sight when navigating the sprawling suburbs.
(8) To which list I almost forgot to add that epitome of Team Australia achievement, Prince Philip.
(9) Clodia Metelli The epitome of the chic, sexy, scandalous aristocrat of 1st century BC Rome, Metelli was supposedly the "Lesbia" to whom the love-lorn poems of Catullus are addressed (and if so, a total ball-breaker).
(10) "We have to be flexible to attract more fans," says the besuited Hashimoto, the epitome of the sombre Japanese executive, making clear the company's thinking behind the switch.
(11) This is the epitome of personalised therapy,” he said.
(12) The budget of 1981 is considered the epitome of soundness, an exercise in rigour that laid the foundations for the strong economic recovery.
(13) It produced more people like Tom and Daisy Buchanan – the epitome of the idle rich who people The Great Gatsby – than it did the hard-working rich, aware of their social responsibilities.
(14) Our financial sector, which plunged a large swath of humanity into economic turmoil, is perhaps the epitome of all the negative traits associated with modern capitalism.
(15) Once optimal stimulus parameters for routine application are determined, the glare pressor test with EEG and polygraphic recording will offer a clinically useful, standardizable method for evaluating the connection between central mechanisms and CV reactivity in professional drivers, a cohort of patients whose occupational activity epitomizes mentally stressful work, and who are at high cardiac risk.
(16) No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.
(17) And though many Puerto Rican voters in Florida are focused on the financial crisis on the island, that doesn’t mean that they’re unconcerned with the rhetoric around immigration and “Mexicans”, as epitomized by statements made by people like Donald Trump .
(18) Large parts of Britain's standing army – the epitome of professional values – are being wound up and replaced by part-time reservists.
(19) The history of oesophageal atresia and tracheo-oesophageal fistula is a mini history of surgery - "oesophageal atresia is the epitome of modern surgery".
(20) To be without legs, and to become the epitome of excellence in the very field where you are not supposed to excel: that is the stuff of legends.
Paradigm
Definition:
(n.) An example; a model; a pattern.
(n.) An example of a conjugation or declension, showing a word in all its different forms of inflection.
(n.) An illustration, as by a parable or fable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Comparisons between predicted and observed results of studies using different coalition paradigms show considerable empirical support for the model.
(2) The hypothesis that the standard acoustic startle habituation paradigm contains the elements of Pavlovian fear conditioning was tested.
(3) We present a paradigm to estimate local affine motion parallax structure from a varying image irradiance pattern.
(4) In the present study, we used a double-labeling paradigm to test that hypothesis.
(5) The results show that centrally administered serotonin, the serotonin precursor, 5-hydroxytryptophan administered with clorgyline, a selective MAO A inhibitor, quipazine, a serotonin receptor agonist, and fluoxetine, a selective inhibitor of neuronal re-uptake of serotonin, attenuated all paradigms of FIA and apomorphine induced potentiation of FIA.
(6) The following oculomotor paradigms were investigated: horizontal and vertical saccades of different sizes (10-80 degrees), smooth pursuit eye movements, optokinetic and vestibular nystagmus.
(7) Testing of CGRP (ICV) in both single bottle conditioned-aversion and differential starvation paradigms was done.
(8) Two other groups were trained in a classical defensive paradigm.
(9) A more current view of science, the Probabilistic paradigm, encourages more complex models, which can be articulated as the more flexible maxims used with insight by the wise clinician.
(10) A sample of 154 randomly selected, full-wave rectified and filtered electromyographic recordings was evaluated using a test-retest paradigm.
(11) We used two experimental paradigms inspired by developmental biology to study how bees obtain information on changing colony needs that results in precocious foraging.
(12) Paradigm relies heavily on social science research and analysis to help companies identify and address the specific barriers and unconscious biases that might be affecting their diversity efforts: things like anonymizing resumes so that employers can’t tell a candidate’s gender or ethnicity, or modifying a salary negotiation process that places women and minorities at a disadvantage.
(13) However, in a double-cue conditioning paradigm in which both command words were presented alone on different trials and reinforced, response latency was longer and puff attenuation poorer among Vs than when the UCS was signaled by a unique cue.
(14) Sixteen patients, 6-15 years old, were tested, using an auditory target selection paradigm.
(15) Mild footshock stress may provide a paradigm for studying both peptidergic modulation of brain dopaminergic neurons and the dynamic regulation of tachykinin and opioid peptide transcription, processing and utilization.
(16) Such characteristics are reminiscent of the behavior of variegating position-effects in Drosophila and the application of this paradigm to human disease phenotypes provides both a mechanism by which differential genome imprinting may be accomplished as well as genetic models that may explain the clinical association of syntenic diseases, the association between tumor progression and specific chromosomal aneuploidy and the unusual inheritance characteristics of many diseases.
(17) Finally, using a newly developed paradigm for examining the composition of regenerating axons by axonal transport, we determined that significant amounts of the 57 kDa neuronal IF protein were conveyed into the regrowing axonal sprouts of DRG neurons.
(18) This modern view of man and his world discards the traditional mechanistic paradigm which has been the focus of Western scientific thought and medicine.
(19) A new experimental paradigm for studying cognitive functions by means of endogenous event-related brain potentials is presented.
(20) A paradigm is provided by the disease phenylketonuria in which the homozygote lacks the enzyme for synthesis of the nonessential amino acid tyrosine.