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were exemplars
noun
Something fit to be imitated; see ideal and model.
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Yet until recently, these BRICs were exemplars of economic growth.
"It's a philosophy that I grew up around," she said, adding that Miami City Ballet's dancers were exemplars.
Commentators debated whether the show's athletic, scantily clad heroines were exemplars of female strength or merely a harem of pretty puppets doing the bidding of a patriarchal leader.
Dir En Grey are, or at least were, exemplars of Visual Kei, a theatrical form of goth-rock that emerged in Japan and Korea in the 1990s.
As the last day came and went, many of those left in the park (38 trailers full, by FEMA's count) were exemplars of New Orleans's most persistent problems before the storm: old, unhealthy, delusional, mentally challenged, addicted, illiterate, senile.
These were not nouveaux riches exactly, but they were exemplars of new Chinese wealth nonetheless, a wealth that is creating a giant middle class that is yearning to do all of the things that middle classes everywhere are wont to do, and not necessarily in stages either, but rather as hurriedly as possible, and, indeed for some of them, all at once.
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The components of variance were exemplar, observer, exemplar × observer interaction, and within-cell error.
· Which companies are exemplars in promoting sustainability?
In both computing and airlines, there are exemplars who are delivering great organic growth.
Yes, those two magical neurasthenics Kafka and Benjamin were, and still are, exemplars.
"There are exemplars of good practice who are trying to pay the right amount of tax".
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