exemplar

Example Sentences

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“Nigeria remains a global exemplar of religious plurality and democratic endurance,” said Dunoma Umar Ahmed, permanent secretary at Nigeria’s Foreign Ministry, in a statement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2025

But it’s better about presenting Hemsworth as an example, not the exemplar, of what functional fitness can look like.

From Salon • Aug. 24, 2025

Levi’s tennis partner, Cooper Schwartz, said in a post on Instagram that his friend was the “greatest work hard, play hard exemplar of all time.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2025

The founders’ fears of dictatorship found a real-world overseas exemplar soon after the Constitution was ratified.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2025

According to this guideline, like may be used only for resemblance to an exemplar, as in I’ll find someone like you and Poems are made by fools like me.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker