shining example
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Instead, honor Frank Gehry, who died on the day this deal was announced, by remembering the Bilbao effect — providing one shining example of greatness can jump-start global revitalization.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025
As business travelers confront the challenges posed by the sudden cutbacks in air travel, they might look to Holly Mulcahy as a shining example of how to navigate the new reality.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 8, 2025
Francis Yeoh Sock Ping, executive chairman of YTL Group, said the company's takeover of Wessex Water in 2002 is a "shining example" of the benefits of collaboration.
From BBC • Jan. 15, 2025
But right alongside that shining example, there’s also the toxic boss, the two-timing supervisor, and the ladder-climbing co-worker.
From Slate • Sep. 4, 2024
Club Ebony in New York City was a shining example of the biracially attended speakeasies that came to be known as “black and tans.”
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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