exemplar
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 of exemplar
1- Also Archaic, ex·am·plar [ig-zam-pler, -zahm-] /ɪgˈzæm plər, -ˈzɑm-/ .
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How to use exemplar in a sentence
In a 2020 column, New Yorker writer Kyle Chayka dubbed the genre “ambient TV,” offering up Netflix’s Emily in Paris as the exemplar.
Yet, for daughters there is the additional role of being an exemplar of all she can hope to be.
The thing that theater fundamentally does is bring people together, and this production is a great exemplar of theater as a unifying force.
Theaters are shut, but ‘A Christmas Carol’ is forever. The endless variety online proves it. | Peter Marks | December 17, 2020 | Washington PostResearch shows student outcomes are, overall, largely the same in charter and traditional public schools, although there are failures and exemplars in both.
How a soccer club won a $1.2 million grant from DeVos’s Education Department to open a charter school | Valerie Strauss | December 3, 2020 | Washington PostThey seem to be one and the same, and I’m not sure there could be a better exemplar than him of what I would like our program to be.
Virginia football loses captain Charles Snowden to a season-ending injury | Gene Wang | November 23, 2020 | Washington Post
This “happiness” poster child makes an odd exemplar for the 21st century.
In the Future We'll All Be Renters: America's Disappearing Middle Class | Joel Kotkin | August 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTUnlike Russia, their country is a world soccer power, with an open, democratic society, a civic exemplar.
The novel is simultaneously a celebration and an exemplar of the joys of storytelling.
American Dreams, 1973: The Princess Bride by William Goldman | Nathaniel Rich | August 28, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThose who loved Pete will miss him desperately, and cherish his memory as an exemplar of integrity, courage, and grace under fire.
Yet the book, curiously, was not considered an outstanding exemplar.
What Director Alan Pakula’s Papers Reveal About Watergate | Max Holland | June 12, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIt certainly seems clear that he took the son of Maya, rather than the child of Mary, as his exemplar.
Ancient Faiths And Modern | Thomas InmanWe form our groups round certain selected Kinds, each of which serves as a sort of exemplar of its group.
A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive | John Stuart MillBut its development was scarcely appreciable, from lack of opportunity and of exemplar.
Four Years in Rebel Capitals | T. C. DeLeonWho would expect Sir Sidney Lee to have had so remote an exemplar?
A Boswell of Baghdad | E. V. LucasDr. Thomas belongs to the Masonic fraternity and is a faithful exemplar of the teachings of the craft.
Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 (of 2) | William Denison Lyman
British Dictionary definitions for exemplar
/ (ɪɡˈzɛmplə, -plɑː) /
a person or thing to be copied or imitated; model
a typical specimen or instance; example
a copy of a book or text on which further printings have been based
Origin of exemplar
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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