genuine article
the genuine article, a person or thing that is an excellent, authentic, or true example of their type, rather than just an imitation: Don’t buy mass-produced T-shirts that weren’t really tie-dyed—we’ve got the genuine article!When it comes to real-life heroes, Lieutenant Shapiro is the genuine article.
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How to use genuine article in a sentence
Like Tinbergen’s birds, we prefer exaggerated artifice to the genuine article.
Drugs, Robots, and the Pursuit of Pleasure: Why Experts Are Worried About AIs Becoming Addicts | Thomas Moynihan | September 17, 2021 | Singularity HubThere are others who actually know Bert Rodriguez yet still accept me as the genuine article.
The cynics among us will be rankled at the description of a book as “inspiring,” but Massie is the genuine article.
This Week’s Hot Reads: May 23, 2012 | Nicholas Mancusi, Malcolm Jones, Lucas Wittmann | May 23, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThere must be either a good deal of gilded gingerbread or a great let of the genuine article, at our places of worship.
Our Churches and Chapels | AtticusClearly the sans-culotte of Brussels was a mere tinsel imitation of the genuine article at Paris.
Belgium | George W. T. (George William Thomson) Omond
They've got eyes for every little detail, and they know the difference between the genuine article and an imitation.
Children of the Whirlwind | Leroy ScottThe above despatch has the appearance of the genuine article—but I am inclined to think it a clever counterfeit.
Nurse and Spy in the Union Army | S. Emma E. EdmondsOne need not blame the Italian for this, though when he himself eats of it, or gives it you to eat, it is the genuine article.
Italian Highways and Byways from a Motor Car | Francis Miltoun
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