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  1. noun One that is representative of a group as a whole: the squirrel, an example of a rodent; introduced each new word with examples of its use.
  2. noun One serving as a pattern of a specific kind: set a good example by arriving on time.
  3. noun A similar case that constitutes a model or precedent: a unique episode, without example in maritime history.
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  • Another example is a group of designers who were working on a surgical instrument with some surgeons. —  Tim Brown on creativity and play
  • So for example, C-H-A-I-R is the English word for that, but a picture of this is a universal symbol. —  Philip Rosedale on Second Life
  • And this example is the latter. —  Robert Lang folds way-new origami
  • Another example is the German jazz guitar player Coco Schumann. —  Mandolin Cafe News
  • Another example is a code which lets you drop down menu of a Session Manager, accessible with a click on small triangle: document. getElementById ( "sessionmanager-toolbar"). open = true;
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  1. Middle English, from Old French example, essaumple, from Latin exemplum, from eximere, to take out : ex-, ex- + emere, to take; see em- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also exemple; from Middle English example, exsample, also asaumple, and by apheresis sample (later English sample, q. v.), but commonly ensample, ensampel, ensaumple, from Old French example, exemple, also essample, and rarely ensample (with prefix en- for es-, ex-), French exemple = Provencal exemple, essemple, etc., = Spanish ejemplo = Portuguese exemplo = Italian esempio = D. G. Danish Swedish exempel, from Latin exemplum, literally what is taken out (as a sample), a sample, pattern, specimen, copy for imitation, etc., from eximere, past participle exemptus, take out, from ex, out, + emere, buy: see exempt. Cf. ensample, sample, exemplar.
  2. from example, n. Cf. the older verb forms ensample and sample.
 

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