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Cassidy's natal narrative hews closely to real-life events; a few literary examples ("Lawdy, Miz Scarlett!") might have enriched it even further.

Having gone through SAT prep this last year, I can safely say that such programs robotically prepare teenagers through one-size-fits-all formulas: your essay must include two literary examples and one personal example.

An ideal dictionary would present an array of real-world examples, weighted somewhat to favor the professional over the amateur but also showing everyday usage alongside more literary examples drawn from books and movies and television and so on.

This reminded me of Raymond Williams's book "The Country and the City," in which he finds that, contrary to most literary examples of pastoral life, there has never actually been a golden age of harmony between humans and nature.

Especially notable is John Ford's Stagecoach, which uses the coach to present a little ark of humanity thrown together to react to and learn from each other and so follows such literary examples as Smollett's The Expedition of Humphry Clinker and Maupassant's "Boule de suif".

I don't have final answers to these questions, but I do have an archive of literary examples with which to help think about them.

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(Milton's Satan is the best literary example).

Francis Bacon's saying, "The most corrected copies are commonly the least correct," is an earlier literary example.

It is impossible to imagine F. W. de Klerk's own evolution from routine nationalist to transracial peacemaker without Brink's literary example.

An article in Science Times on Tuesday about a project at the University of Southern California that uses artificial intelligence to help soldiers learn Arabic gave an incorrect literary example.

But then I thought of a real literary example: "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," Choderlos de Laclos's eighteenth-century novel of sexual intrigue and power games among the ruling class that would soon be displaced by the French Revolution.

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