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Also, for instance . As an illustration of something, as in Dress casually, in blue jeans, for example , or This program has problems—for instance, it's hard to retrieve lost data . The first expression, which dates from the late 1500s, is used throughout this book to illustrate how an idiom is used. The variant dates from the mid-1600s.

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