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• a  of or relating to a grammatical paradigm
  paradigmatic inflection
• a  of or relating to a typical example
  paradigmatic learning
• a  related as members of a substitution class
  paradigmatic word associations

• He is so paradigmatic of impetuous power (throwing tantrums, bad-mouthing employees in the press, hiring a spy to dig up dirt on Dave Winfield) that he's simply called the Boss .
• Even Newt Gingrich once the paradigmatic right-wing ideologue is suspect.
• Clare Brokaw -- journalist and playwright, future Congresswoman and ambassador -- at 31 was Manhattan's paradigmatic gay divorcee, renowned as much for her merciless wit as for her .

• syntagmatic

News & Articles

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• Test Spins: Diplo, Revolution
  By ZACH REISLER Diplo is a personal hero and music inspiration to me. If you don’t know the story behind this paradigmatic figure in the Electronic Dance Music scene, let me review it for you briefly. Diplo was born in Mississippi but grew up in south Florida in a middle […]
  Oct. 10, 2013 - The Cornell Daily Sun

Quotes

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• Gabi Ashkenazi in Reuters UK
  We are are witnessing, I believe, a paradigmatic change in the Middle East in which radical countries and elements are trying to (install) a new order to replace the traditional national, secular one that exists today,Ashkenazi said in a...
• Pope Benedict XVI in Zenit News Agency
  There seems to me to be an almost paradigmatic illustration of these considerations at that nerve point of the world scene, which is the Holy Land,the Pope said today in an address to the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See.
• Josh Marshall in guardian.co.uk
  ...Points Memo's Josh Marshall noted that as Fox incredibly insists on its own even-handedness, it has stayed out of the debate about how to do journalism with a political point of view - "except as the paradigmatic example of how it's not...