What is a paradigm and examples of paradigms in sentences
-a set of all forms all of which contain a particular element
-an example serving as a model
The word is made up of two words: para and digm (to show).
In layman's terms, a paradigm is another word for idea, style, pattern, example or approach. Any of those words can be easily interchanged with the word paradigm but such a fancy word makes for great rhetoric.