Thesaurus results for EXEMPLARS

exemplars

noun

plural of exemplar

as in examples

one of a group or collection that shows what the whole is like the village's Congregational church could serve as an exemplar of the white clapboard church with a steeple that is a fixture in old New England towns

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someone of such unequaled perfection as to deserve imitation few of history's heroes were quite the exemplars that generations of schoolteachers made them out to be

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as in classics

the most perfect type or example the paintings of the French painter Claude Monet are often regarded as exemplars of Impressionism

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Recent Examples of exemplars Summary Dolly Parton and Oscar Wilde, despite their vastly different origins, are celebrated as exemplars of authentic personal branding. — William Arruda, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026 One of this model’s best exemplars is an object known as MoM-BH*-1, first found in JWST images from 2023 and the subject of a paper published today in Nature. — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2026 Panegyrists of the American Century would hold up artists such as Pollock as exemplars of the new dynamism, the new liberty of free expression. — Steven Johnson, Washington Post, 14 July 2026 Melissa are prime exemplars of how to do it right — and you’re bound to discover both the ultra-luxury and the laid-back amidst Nordstrom’s bursting-at-the-seams sale section this May. — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 26 May 2026 Between the historically high bar of OL Lyonnes and the recent surge of Barcelona, the two teams are shining exemplars of what’s possible with proper investment in women’s clubs. — Tamerra Griffin, New York Times, 21 May 2026 The trio of titles making the rounds at Cannes are exemplars of the type of material Anonymous Content intends to pursue that this moment of great upheaval across film and TV. — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 8 May 2026 The Dutch — forebears of our city and exemplars of cycling culture — require fast e-bikes to be licensed and insured as mopeds. — Sameer Butt, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2026 These warblers now join Amazonian butterflies, cichlid fish in Africa, as well as our own hominid lineage, as exemplars of this process of evolutionary sharing. — David Toews, The Conversation, 11 Dec. 2025

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Both examples demonstrate how local champions and an existing source of funding can help turn a lifesaving idea into reality.

— Meng Yang, Time, 18 Oct. 2026
One of the biggest examples came in 2024, when attackers targeted Change Healthcare, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2026

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Associate Laboratory Director Jess Gehin said engineers currently rely on models to predict how this reactor design will perform.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2026
That may sound counterintuitive, given that Chinese open-source models have won plaudits worldwide for their low costs—and that China has cheap power.

— Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of models

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Back in the main hotel building, Il Faro Trattoria has sweeping sea views from its terrace and serves Italian classics including pizza and pasta.

— Siobhan Grogan, TheWeek, 12 Oct. 2026
The Alhambra Orchestra and Greater Miami Youth Symphony team up for a multimedia Halloween concert filled with movie themes and eerie classics.

— Mike Hamersly, Miami Herald, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of classics

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When teams stay genuinely curious and learn to challenge ideas without challenging people, disagreement becomes a tool for better thinking and can actually strengthen trust.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Santoyo supports meeting regularly with students and the community to exchange ideas and concerns.

— Sophia Veneziano, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of ideas

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This image influenced the Italian view of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, in which European journalists presented the Japanese soldiers as samurai-like paragons of discipline and self-sacrifice.

— Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 22 Sep. 2026
Grossman’s soldiers might not be tidy paragons of bravery, but they’re portrayed with an unwavering, compassionate regard.

— Madeleine Wulfahrt, New Yorker, 8 July 2026

Definition of paragons

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Rachel Ojuromi had been in Paris for a week when one of her oldest manifestations started to become real life.

— Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2026
Compared with the political circus in Washington and the malaise in the rest of America, such surface-level manifestations of China’s wealth and power often lead to sweeping conclusions about relative national trajectories.

— Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026

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