exemplar
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Conservative intellectuals in the U.S. appropriated Disraeli as an exemplar of temperament and principle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
"Public health innovations in Australia sort of gave a general exemplar for WHO to follow," says Canfell.
From BBC ● May 1, 2026
He long served as a moral exemplar; he should now serve as a cautionary tale known to all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026
Other highlights include a sterling silver exemplar of “Box of Smile,” which is a small box containing a mirror inside.
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2025
The original exemplar of American social mobility was almost certainly Benjamin Franklin, one of seventeen children of a candle maker.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
It was reseeded and grown over by lush grass, and by 1997 an ideal habitat was created for the first of Mr. Moore’s exemplars, the elk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
That program, sponsored by John Entenza’s Arts & Architecture magazine from 1945 to 1966, yielded 25 completed homes, today considered top exemplars of Midcentury home design.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2025
They are the exemplars that we hold up as something that’s wrong and must never happen again.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2025
He added: "I think we absolutely need people to be exemplars of the BBC values and follow our social media policy. It's as simple as that."
From BBC ● May 14, 2025
I commended these three men as individuals, not as representatives of the court or of the state or even of their race, but as exemplars of human decency under adversity.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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