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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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Fox News, for example, ran segments addressing the conspiracy theories.

From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2026

The National Institutes of Health, for example, awarded out about $427 million in federal research funds to UC San Diego last year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 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

Instead, they are flocking to newer AI trades: chip stocks like SK Hynix, for example, or the Roundhill Memory exchange-traded fund, according to data from flow-tracking firm Vanda Research.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 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