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Universities follow Disneyland’s example by front-loading much of the total cost into tuition and fees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
People often act more formally in job interviews than they do with friends, for example.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
So, for example, with the PCE data, he expects it will endorse his view that inflation pressures are cooling.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
Take, for example, the battle over the rights to I Will Always Love You.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Only on rare occasions did their good behavior falter: for example, when peas were unexpectedly served at luncheon.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
But history also provides examples of companies for whom courting less-creditworthy customers backfired spectacularly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
He and his brother, Malcolm, a linebacker and another Super Bowl winner, were examples of all the good that can happen when raised by parents to be respectful and humble.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
Museums, including the London Museum, external, now hold examples in their permanent collections as important artefacts documenting the fight for women's voting rights.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
It’s hard to find any modern examples of the corporate death penalty, but that doesn’t mean critics of abusive business haven’t attempted to invoke it.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
Here are definitions and examples of the four main types of texture.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
“We’ve made tremendous progress, and that progress is exampled all across the state of California — but not equally,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2022
Among the new locations are any place children “gather,” with exampled such as playgrounds, daycare facilities and school bus stops.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 27, 2021
The Arbitration Treaty form is well exampled in the German-Czecho-Slovakian treaty of 22 articles.
From Time Magazine Archive
The pain of the two men in resolutely controlling themselves when thus exampled to admit relief of the same kind was distressing.
From A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
The doings of the Black Prince might, also be exampled as inducing the study of the geography of northern France.
From She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History. by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson
In an ecstasy of tender contemplation he turns from those to these, exampling Julia from the rose and pitying the hapless violets as though they were indeed not blooms insensitive but actually ‘poor girls neglected.’
From Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation by William Ernest Henley
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