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prep_phraseUK /fəɹ ɪɡˈzɑːm.p(ə)l/ · CA, US /ˌfoɹ ɪɡˈzæm.pəl/
Etymology First attested in the second half of the 16th century.
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Conjunctive As an example.
- The book has quite a few plot holes. For example, it's never explained why the main character came to town.
- The more highly the injured part is endowed with sensory nerves the more marked is the shock; a crush of the hand, for example, is attended with a more intense degree of shock than a correspondingly severe crush of the foot1921, Alexis Thomson, Alexander Miles, Manual of Surgery:
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- For a structuralist like Edmund Leach, the structure is the meaning. Genesis, for example, is about incest taboos; all the rest is noise and mystification.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 12:
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