: something that serves as a practical example of a principle or abstract idea
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His life story is an object lesson in how not to run a business.
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Within hours, Petro had relented, and his humiliation provided an object lesson for other leaders.
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Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 8 May 2025
This, my friends, is an object lesson in innovation management.
—Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
The two men are an object lesson in the pitfalls of trying to do Trumpism without Trump.
—Drew Nelles, Time, 28 Apr. 2025
Post-Brexit British politics—the chaos and then collapse of the Conservative leadership—offered an object lesson.
—Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
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Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 8 May 2025
This, my friends, is an object lesson in innovation management.
—Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
The two men are an object lesson in the pitfalls of trying to do Trumpism without Trump.
—Drew Nelles, Time, 28 Apr. 2025
Post-Brexit British politics—the chaos and then collapse of the Conservative leadership—offered an object lesson.
—Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
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“Object lesson.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/object%20lesson. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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