exemplar
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Kendrick Lamar, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his lyrics, is a modern exemplar.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026
This novel, winner of the Booker Prize, uses a blunt, clipped style to advantage, exposing Istvan as an exemplar of both toxic masculinity and hinting at what’s required to escape it.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025
But there’s another European fascist leader of the last century who’s been hovering in the background all this time as a noteworthy exemplar.
From Salon • Nov. 16, 2025
Brig Guy Foden said he was a "super soldier" and in a "remarkable company stood out at the top", adding he was a "master of his profession" and an "exemplar of the Royal Anglian".
From BBC • Mar. 3, 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
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