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exemplar

[ig-zem-pler, -plahr]

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noun

a model or pattern to be copied or imitated: Washington is the exemplar of patriotic virtue.

a typical example or instance.

an original or archetype: Plato thought nature but a copy of ideal exemplars.

a copy of a book or text.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin, variant of exemplāre, noun use of neuter of exemplāris exemplary; replacing Middle English exaumplere < Middle French examplaire < Latin exemplāris

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Peoples is a trash-talking, violent exemplar of the id.

Codes not being able to predict every exemplar of hostile speech, what meant to be specific turned out to be only muddy.

Shakespeare has advantages and disadvantages as an exemplar.

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Peoples is a trash-talking, violent exemplar of the id.

Codes not being able to predict every exemplar of hostile speech, what meant to be specific turned out to be only muddy.

Shakespeare has advantages and disadvantages as an exemplar.

In the dot-com camp, he cites eBay as a prime exemplar of a company with a profitable online business model.

Edison has been the living exemplar of ambition achieved for all news butchers.

Just a note about this monstrosity that somehow got thrown upon a great friend and an exemplar of a professor.

So he was ditched, despite his exemplar qualifications.

Gmail continues to roll out new features steadily, and has become an exemplar of the iterative model for web app development.

Such was the erudition and acuity of our master teacher and exemplar of piety.

Bishop is not an exemplar of something wrong with the tenure process.

In a similar vein, the industry has long believed it is vital to act as an exemplar in the workplace.

He's a living exemplar of the urban principle that real estate of absolutely negative value can always be given to artists.

It has survived as an exemplar of what such a book ought to be.

To many of us, he was a great companion, an exemplar of great wit and a great guy.

He served as a powerful exemplar of rabbinic leadership in his congregation as well as far beyond.

I've been focusing today on one special exemplar of that spirit in action.

He is no caricatural exemplar of narrow insularity.

Her life was an exemplar for everyone concerned about the cause of equality.

The speaker was instead that sparkling exemplar of corporate ethics circa.

Neither country is an exemplar of free-market capitalism-far from.

He is an exemplar of a major unintended byproduct of the imprisonment boom of the past two decades.

Gleevec was the exemplar of a brand-new kind of cancer medicine.

Sparkee, a grayish hound, is an exemplar of the species.

In all these respects he was guide and master, companion and exemplar.

Parish's world, the exemplar of generational continuity she stressed in her work.

Each of these stories has been an exemplar of diligent reporting, empathetic writing and tremendous courage.

Washington is less an exemplar of democracy than an agglomeration of marble facades paying unctuous tribute to that aspiration.

Browne had strutted a global stage as an exemplar of business success.

Marsalis became an exemplar of and spokesman for what he saw as the pinnacle of the jazz tradition:.

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exemplar (ɪɡˈzɛmplə, -plɑː)

—n
1.	a person or thing to be copied or imitated; model
2.	a typical specimen or instance; example
3.	a copy of a book or text on which further printings have been based

[C14: from Latin exemplarium model, from exemplumexample]

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exemplar

late 14c., "original model of the universe in the mind of God," later (mid-15c.) "model of virtue," from O.Fr. exemplaire and directly from L.L. exemplarium, from L. exemplum (see example).

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