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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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None of this was caused by a tariff on imported steel, for example.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026

More price-sensitive investors might be less enthusiastic about valuing loss-making AI companies at $1.5 trillion, for example.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

With Tuesday’s election of Juliana Stratton, for example, there will be three Black women concurrently serving in the Senate.

From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2026

Verstappen, for example, is constantly having a go about clunky gearshifts or a balance he does not like.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

The word articulation generally refers to how the pieces of something are joined together; for example, how bones are connected to make a skeleton or syllables are connected to make a word.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

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