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[ig-zam-puhl, -zahm-] / ɪgˈzæm pəl, -ˈzɑm- /


Usage

What synonym should I use for example? Example as a sample: Example, sample, specimen refer to an individual phenomenon taken as representative of a type, or to a part representative of the whole. Example is used of an object, condition, etc., that is assumed to illustrate a certain principle or standard: a good example of baroque architecture. Sample refers to a small portion of a substance or to a single representative of a group or type that is intended to show what the rest of the substance or the group is like: a sample of yarn. Specimen usually suggests that the “sample” chosen is intended to serve a scientific or technical purpose: a blood specimen; zoological specimens. Example as a pattern: See ideal. Example as a specimen: See case1. ​

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Differences in the texture and density of the regolith, for example, could influence how rover wheels move across the surface.

From Science Daily Sep. 18, 2026

However, the BBC understands that there are different rules depending on teams, with, for example, investment bankers in the office for five days per week.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

The Apple TV+ show “Sugar,” starring Colin Farrell is an example, as is the recent A24 movie “The Drama.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

For example, he pointed to widening credit spreads for AI-related company debt amid an “insatiable demand” to borrow money among corporations that “won’t care if rates go up 200 points.”

From MarketWatch Sep. 17, 2026

If Sam happened to see scary monsters, for example, he could flash dit dit dit; dah dah dah; dit dit dit to Gertrustein, and she would save him.

From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry

The show also includes examples from his mid-1980s shift toward more colorful hues, calligraphy-like glyphs and looping lines that collectively confirmed him as one of the most influential abstract painters of the 20th century.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

The so-called grey digital divide has provided some striking examples in the nation of about 52 million, home to world-leading smartphone and memory chipmakers.

From Barron's Sep. 14, 2026

“We are also seeing resource nationalism and de-globalization. Copper is one of the most visible examples of this strategic stockpiling theme, but it applies to all critical minerals,” Wolf told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch Sep. 13, 2026

Instead, those compounds are useful reference points because they are familiar examples of molecules that absorb light very efficiently.

From Science Daily Sep. 13, 2026

Both Buckingham Palace and Ashton Place were fine examples of the neoclassical style of architecture, which is to say they were boxy and rather plain, in a symmetrical, fluted-column sort of way.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

“We’ve made tremendous progress, and that progress is exampled all across the state of California — but not equally,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 9, 2022

Among the new locations are any place children “gather,” with exampled such as playgrounds, daycare facilities and school bus stops.

From Washington Times Oct. 27, 2021

The Arbitration Treaty form is well exampled in the German-Czecho-Slovakian treaty of 22 articles.

From Time Magazine Archive

In this young wood of Taahauku all these hues and combinations were exampled and repeated by the score.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

When I exampled polygamy, Hill became passionate, and asked if I was an abolitionist.

From Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by George Alfred Townsend

In an ecstasy of tender contemplation he turns from those to these, exampling Julia from the rose and pitying the hapless violets as though they were indeed not blooms insensitive but actually ‘poor girls neglected.’

From Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation by William Ernest Henley