textbook case/example
noun
: a classic, perfect case/example
The scandal is a textbook case/example of corporate greed.
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The bowl’s hemisphere can summon to mind the 18th-century French architect Étienne-Louis Boullée’s famous unbuilt monument to Newton, a textbook example of Enlightenment idealism.
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Michael Kimmelman Clement Pascal, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
By the time that the two titular stars team up and get involved in a zero-gravity battle royale that’s a textbook example of sound and fury signifying near-indecipherable noise and chaos, you’re left wondering why so little of this seems to land.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2024
Your situation is a textbook example of how discriminatory pay gaps operate.
—Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 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, 26 Feb. 2024
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
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
The spasm of consumer price increases that began in 2021 and ended in 2023 is a textbook example.
—George Calhoun, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
Hollywood loves a good makeover montage, with Eliza Doolittle’s iconic transformation in My Fair Lady, portrayed by Audrey Hepburn, a textbook example.
—Boutayna Chokrane, Vogue, 3 Jan. 2024
Michael Kimmelman Clement Pascal, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
By the time that the two titular stars team up and get involved in a zero-gravity battle royale that’s a textbook example of sound and fury signifying near-indecipherable noise and chaos, you’re left wondering why so little of this seems to land.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2024
Your situation is a textbook example of how discriminatory pay gaps operate.
—Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 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, 26 Feb. 2024
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
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
The spasm of consumer price increases that began in 2021 and ended in 2023 is a textbook example.
—George Calhoun, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
Hollywood loves a good makeover montage, with Eliza Doolittle’s iconic transformation in My Fair Lady, portrayed by Audrey Hepburn, a textbook example.
—Boutayna Chokrane, Vogue, 3 Jan. 2024
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