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example

[ig-zam-puhl, -zahm-] / ɪgˈzæm pəl, -ˈzɑm- /


Usage

What synonym should I use for example? Example as a sample: Example, sample, specimen refer to an individual phenomenon taken as representative of a type, or to a part representative of the whole. Example is used of an object, condition, etc., that is assumed to illustrate a certain principle or standard: a good example of baroque architecture. Sample refers to a small portion of a substance or to a single representative of a group or type that is intended to show what the rest of the substance or the group is like: a sample of yarn. Specimen usually suggests that the “sample” chosen is intended to serve a scientific or technical purpose: a blood specimen; zoological specimens. Example as a pattern: See ideal. Example as a specimen: See case1. ​

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Chelsea, for example, have one of the most sought-after young managers in the game in Xabi Alonso, and also look to have bought well in the transfer market.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

You can also practise standing on one leg, for example while brushing your teeth.

From Science Daily Aug. 16, 2026

I want to revive and kind of expand on that because we now have the real-life example of the birthright citizenship case.

From Slate Aug. 16, 2026

When presented with an Erdős problem, for example, those systems start by researching the history of Erdős problems.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

For example, last night I ported to Aderlaine Giverny’s house so we could go star watching on the riverfront.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

There have been many examples where riders have had collisions or close calls with cars entering a live stage route regardless of the type of closure.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

One of the most egregious examples of this narrow reporting was the coverage of the “black summer” fires in Australia in 2019 and 2020.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

So many of the scenarios on these apps present classic examples of a perverse incentive, in which the structure of a system encourages undesirable results.

From Salon Aug. 12, 2026

It then rattled off examples including Chan’s opposition to Wiener’s state law to streamline housing projects.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

The following examples are helpful in preparing autistic students in advance for transitions.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

“We’ve made tremendous progress, and that progress is exampled all across the state of California — but not equally,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 9, 2022

Among the new locations are any place children “gather,” with exampled such as playgrounds, daycare facilities and school bus stops.

From Washington Times Oct. 27, 2021

The Arbitration Treaty form is well exampled in the German-Czecho-Slovakian treaty of 22 articles.

From Time Magazine Archive

What this may be is best exampled by our harlequinades, in which very much of Boccaccio's bent still survives.

From Little Novels of Italy by Maurice Henry Hewlett

Nothing in its well exampled kind is better touched off than the Listomere coterie, from the shrewdness of Monsieur de Bourbonne to the selfishness of Madame de Listomere.

From The Celibates by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

In an ecstasy of tender contemplation he turns from those to these, exampling Julia from the rose and pitying the hapless violets as though they were indeed not blooms insensitive but actually ‘poor girls neglected.’

From Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation by William Ernest Henley




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