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Idioms  

1. 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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for example

Last year, for example, at his Miami waterfront estate, Witkoff hammered out a plan with Russia’s Dmitriev for $300 billion in joint Russia–U.S. investment projects—which would come to fruition after some possible future peace.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

It was not a general suggestion of, for example, using up the increased headroom against the government's borrowing rules.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Southwest Airlines, for example, offered a dollar-for-dollar match of up to 9.3% of employees’ salaries in 2024.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

Polygenic risk scores, for example, combine the effects of many genetic variants into a single measure of inherited risk.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026

How did you finish a reed mat, for example?

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

Related Words

• as
• e.g.
• for instance
• such as
• thus