How to Use textbook case/example in a Sentence
textbook case/example
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What followed, police experts say, was a textbook case on how not to deal with the public.
—Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 12 Jan. 2025
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In retrospect, her death is a textbook case of colchicine poisoning.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2023
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The dodo, of the island of Mauritius, is a textbook example.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
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As for Oscar, there’s no doubt that his conduct was a textbook case of workplace harassment.
—Anahid Nersessian, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2024
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Ian, overshadowed by his brother, seemed a textbook case.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
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But on balance, Springfield is a textbook case of how immigration can change a region’s luck for the better.
—Peter Certo, Orange County Register, 12 Sep. 2024
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Seems like a textbook example for when a team should force someone other than its opponent’s best weapon to beat them.
—Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2024
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His career path is a textbook case of succession planning.
—Phil Wahba, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2023
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The plight of the teacher Wolfe’s experience is a textbook example of how today’s educators are at the end of their rope and have been for some time.
—Chloe Berger, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2023
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The most recent breach, on Thursday, was almost a textbook example of the maneuver.
—David Axe, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
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The textbook example of incitement is someone in front of an angry mob telling them to attack a person.
—Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
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Related article The Maine gunman was a ‘textbook case’ for a state law designed to remove firearms from people like him.
—Emma Tucker, CNN, 15 Mar. 2024
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Shuggie Bain is a textbook example of the sort of show that could be impacted by American money falling out the market.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 28 Jan. 2025
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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has called child care a textbook example of a broken market.
—Madeleine Ngo, New York Times, 21 June 2023
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Just a speck in the elaborate web of scandal that seized Anaheim city government, to be sure, but a textbook case of how two-bit tyranny can strangle a righteous American Dream.
—Teri Sforza, Orange County Register, 10 May 2024
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The Disney Treasure, which departed on its maiden voyage Dec. 21, is in many ways a textbook example.
—Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Jan. 2025
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Kendall Jenner just delivered the textbook example of high-low dressing.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2024
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Apple now towers as a textbook case of a stock so richly valued that its future returns will likely prove extremely poor.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 4 July 2023
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If such a thing as a devotional folkloric genre painting could exist, this might be its textbook example.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2023
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Medieval weaponry aside, this is a textbook example of modern conquest.
—Dan Altman, Foreign Affairs, 24 Sep. 2021
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The textbook example is on the same campus: Dutcher and his staff routinely land impact players who value winning more than an NIL payday.
—Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Nov. 2023
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In his presidential win six years later, Trump provided a textbook example of how to apply this.
—Alena Botros, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2024
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Myanmar in the wake of a military coup is a textbook example: the United States sanctioned members of the regime, but Chinese largess and diplomatic support have helped the military weather the sanctions.
—Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs, 29 Sep. 2021
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An American-Israeli takeover of Gaza is a textbook example of aggressive war and ethnic cleansing.
—Carine Harb, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
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This nation of loyal Prime subscribers helped make Amazon, for many years a textbook case of an unprofitable tech company, into a juggernaut.
—Whizy Kim, Vox, 15 July 2024
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The traditional Italian combination of nothing more than tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, basil, olive oil, salt and pepper is a textbook case of something that, when made well, can taste like so much more than the sum of its parts.
—Joe Yonan, Washington Post, 2 July 2023
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This was a textbook example of how an organization can become a conduit.
—Ziv Biron, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
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The show is a textbook example of the sort of show the corporation is looking to do more of, representing underrepresented communities in parts of the UK that don’t always get their fair share.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 24 Mar. 2025
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Maddie, whose literary hopes were discouraged by her conservative milieu, is both a textbook case of the problem with no name and the epitome of an ambition monster.
—Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2024
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Playing Seok required learning more about antisocial behavior and yet the character is more than a textbook example of a disorder.
—Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
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