textbook case/example
noun
: a classic, perfect case/example
The scandal is a textbook case/example of corporate greed.
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Ricardo’s textbook example shows a simplified world economy consisting of two countries (England and Portugal) producing wine and cloth.
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Sarah Keohane Williamson, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
This season of ‘The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ is a textbook example of how *not* to handle beef.
—Jenna Ryu, SELF, 15 May 2025
At least one high-level Israeli official, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, has openly proclaimed that the purpose of this policy is to inflict so much suffering that Palestinians are effectively forced to make the latter choice — a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.
—Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 12 May 2025
Germany, which shut all its nuclear power stations, is a textbook example.
—Javier Blas/bloomberg Opinion, Boston Herald, 29 Apr. 2025
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Sarah Keohane Williamson, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
This season of ‘The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ is a textbook example of how *not* to handle beef.
—Jenna Ryu, SELF, 15 May 2025
At least one high-level Israeli official, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, has openly proclaimed that the purpose of this policy is to inflict so much suffering that Palestinians are effectively forced to make the latter choice — a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.
—Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 12 May 2025
Germany, which shut all its nuclear power stations, is a textbook example.
—Javier Blas/bloomberg Opinion, Boston Herald, 29 Apr. 2025
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