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prototypical

[proh-tuh-tip-i-kuhl] / ˌproʊ təˈtɪp ɪ kəl /


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“It isn’t the prototypical way that you draw it up,” said David Keller, who led Chicago’s scouting of Murakami.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

Apple had been working on such a display for its prototypical workstation, the Lisa, which eventually would morph into the Macintosh.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

A prototypical NFT of Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s first tweet was purchased by a cryptocurrency entrepreneur for $2.9 million in 2021.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2024

In 1987, David Letterman was taping his late-night show in Las Vegas before rowdy audiences of mostly young men in preppy pullovers and muscle shirts — prototypical bros raised on “Porky’s.”

From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2024

One man who took such apocalyptic speculation seriously was Leo Szilard, the energetic and resourceful Hungarian physicist who had tried to patent a prototypical cyclotron just before Lawrence’s practical invention.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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