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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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Anthropic, for example, says three Chinese AI firms prompted Claude more than 16 million times to better train their own products.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026

Taiwanese athletes in the Olympics, for example, compete under a different flag and the name Chinese Taipei.

From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2026

Mint essence, for example, contains menthone, and the tool can propose other ingredients that also include the compound.

From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026

When choosing a heating system, people can find themselves bombarded with information – how powerful a heat pump do they need, for example?

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026

Henry Lee, for example, apprised Madison that the assumption debate reminded him of those glorious days of yesteryear, when the Virginia Assembly refused to recognize Parliament’s right to tax colonies.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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