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noun

framework

a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process

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Six example sentences with framework, each labelled with its topic.

  • Her framework treats memory as three stages, and every experiment in the lab is designed to test one of them.

    Psychology

  • The old framework predicted that prices and unemployment could not rise together, so the 1970s forced a rewrite.

    Economics

  • Without a shared framework for what counts as evidence, two careful thinkers can argue for years and never meet.

    Philosophy

  • Her framework describes coalitions as markets, with small parties selling their votes for ministries and policy promises.

    Politics

  • The gate control framework describes pain as a signal the spinal cord can dampen before it reaches the brain.

    Medicine

  • The pricing framework treats every bond as a bundle of separate payments, each discounted by its own distance in time.

    Finance

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