case in point

1. A relevant example or illustration of something, as in A case in point was the collision of a cyclist with a pedestrian crossing the designated bike path. [Mid-1700s]

Example Sentences

A case in point was the Interior Department’s move to restrict oil and gas leasing on 11 million acres in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve.

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A January sanctions round by the outgoing Biden administration offers a case in point.

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Friday’s selloff is a case in point: the suggestion of an escalated trade war between Washington and Beijing pounded stocks—and erased all of the market’s October gains.

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A case in point is the Inca Road, arguably the greatest infrastructure accomplishment of pre-Columbian times.

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But the news about tariffs on UK steel remaining in place is a case in point about that unpredictability.

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