textbook example
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A textbook example is a case that perfectly illustrates a principle, category, or phenomenon—the kind of instance you might find in an instructional text to demonstrate a concept.
That merger was a textbook example of corporate greed.
The phrase emphasizes how cleanly something fits expectations, whether positive or negative.
Textbook can also modify other nouns with the same effect: a textbook case, a textbook landing.
- paradigmaticServing as ideal model
- archetypalEmbodying the original pattern
- epitomePerfect representative of type
- quintessentialRepresenting the ideal type
- benchmarkStandard for comparison
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- idealsideal, utopia, archetypes, models, paradise
textbook exampleoutlier
Distant data point
anomaly · exception · aberration · freak occurrence · edge case
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