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quintessential

adjective as in model

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I ate my pastries under a shady pergola and biked back to the hotel for a quintessential Miami afternoon: following the sun from pool to beach.

Street food vendors are a quintessential ingredient of the vast Mexican capital and one of its biggest attractions for foreign visitors.

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Indeed, the quintessential meme stock has little in the way of profits to catch the eye of serious investors.

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The result: an unabashed celebration of women, theater and all things 1980s, led by the quintessential musician who embodies it all: Cyndi Lauper.

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But the instinct to protect something quintessentially American is patriotism, not politics.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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