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/ɪɡˈzæm.pəl/ verb C2
  1. To be illustrated or exemplified (by).

He/she/it examples · Past exampled · Past participle exampled · -ing form exampling

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Lynde wouldn’t go; she said horse racing was an abomination and, she being a church member, thought it her bounden duty to set a good example by staying away.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 237 · C1
For example, you see these two fish; one brought from fifty leagues beyond St.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 666 · C1
“How did you know, for example, that I did manual labour.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 4 · B2
Let us suppose, for example, that he had been approached by some foreign agent.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 25 · B2

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