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The phrase "take an example from" is perfectly correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to an example that has been previously mentioned or discussed. For example, you could say "Let's take an example from earlier and discuss how this applies to the current situation."
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Take an example from graduate school.
Take an example from Lens, this newspaper's photography blog.
Take an example from a recent issue of Self magazine.
Take an example from "Travels With My Aunt".
Well, let's take an example from law enforcement.
Again, let us take an example from Physics --- Boyle's law of the compressibility of gases.
To take an example (from a recent edition of G2): "This break's Kant's maxim... .. Clearly the work of the apostrofly.
If you have to take an example from pop music to convey nerdiness, wouldn't you go with Devo?
To take an example from one of the masters of rhyming, Alexander Pope, in "An Essay on Man": In parts superior what advantage lies?
Why, for instance, to take an example from our own blessedly frivolous era, are we so much more obsessed by David Beckham than by, say, Michael Owen?
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An MPLS network operational implementation is illustrated by taking an example from AT&T's MPLS operations/network management architecture.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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