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one of a number of things, or a part of something, taken to show the character of the whole.
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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I might indeed have exampled his snuff-taking as a proof of his power of endowing everything with a sense of adventure and pregnant interest.
From The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography by John St. Loe Strachey