genuine article

Example Sentences

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Even today, if you order it on the street in Turkey, there’s no guarantee you’re getting the genuine article.

From Seattle Times

South American expert Tim Vickery: It always amazes me how little City had to pay and how little the competition was to sign him because he was already the genuine article.

From BBC

The FBI, most elected officials, and the majority of white Americans saw King as subversive, when in reality he was America's most powerful defender, just as Jackson, suffering through similar slander, remains an advocate for the genuine article America, what Walt Whitman called, "Centre for equal daughters, equal sons . . . Perennial with the Earth, with freedom, law, and love."

From Salon

In fact, she finds it ironic that some of the people most adamant in characterizing criticism of Israel as anti-Semitic — including President Donald Trump — have actually been guilty of the genuine article.

From Salon

Cool-adjacent at times, but never the genuine article.

From Los Angeles Times