The phrase "a popular example" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a widely recognized or frequently cited instance that illustrates a particular point or concept.
Example: "The theory of evolution is often explained using a popular example: the peppered moth."
Alternatives: "a well-known instance" or "a common illustration".
Take Starbucks as a popular example.
A popular example of this is La Manga Club near Cartagena on the Costa Calida (00 34 968 175577; lamangaclub.com), which began life as a golf course in a residential development.
"SHONEN JUMP DAY IN NEW YORK CITY," a celebration of manga, Japanese comic books, in honor of the debut of the United States edition of a popular example, Shonen Jump.
John Moschus, (born c. 540 550, probably Damascus, Syria died 619 or 634, Rome [Italy], or Constantinople, Byzantine Empire) Byzantine monk and writer whose work Pratum spirituale ("The Spiritual Meadow"), describing monastic spiritual experiences throughout the Middle East, became a popular example of ascetic literature during the medieval period and was a model for similar works.
A popular example is the Tanimoto index [6].
This simple model has been a popular example in financial engineering.
("Hard," "evil" people can make art, too; to use a particularly popular example from history, Hitler was an acclaimed painter).
(Or, to take a less popular example, "I ♥ Buffalo").
Tylenol is a common, popular example of acetaminophen.
A prominent and popular example of SDR platform is to use the universal software radio peripheral (USRP) hardware kit[25] along with the open-source GNU Radio software toolkit[26] that implements in software various necessary signal processing blocks.
The ballerina Ekaterina Geltser – saviour of Russian ballet, according to no less an authority than Konstantin Stanislavski – was at the time performing The Red Poppy, an early and popular example of Soviet propaganda where brave workers side with the oppressed Chinese against the fiendish British.
