textbook case/example
noun
: a classic, perfect case/example
The scandal is a textbook case/example of corporate greed.
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What followed, police experts say, was a textbook case on how not to deal with the public.
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Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 12 Jan. 2025
Walmart’s collaboration with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to support smallholder farmers in Central America is a textbook case.
—Michael Shribman, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
This year, an enormous king penguin chick named Pesto — a 50-pound tower of downy brown fluff at the Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium, in Australia — became a textbook case.
—Emily Anthes, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2024
But coerced adoptions only accelerate the dissolution of existing support systems: a textbook example of how colonial logic disrupts perfectly functional societies.
—John Washington, Harper's Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
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Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 12 Jan. 2025
Walmart’s collaboration with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to support smallholder farmers in Central America is a textbook case.
—Michael Shribman, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
This year, an enormous king penguin chick named Pesto — a 50-pound tower of downy brown fluff at the Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium, in Australia — became a textbook case.
—Emily Anthes, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2024
But coerced adoptions only accelerate the dissolution of existing support systems: a textbook example of how colonial logic disrupts perfectly functional societies.
—John Washington, Harper's Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
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“Textbook case/example.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/textbook%20case%2Fexample. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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