textbook case/example
noun
: a classic, perfect case/example
The scandal is a textbook case/example of corporate greed.
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Wines to Try Karavitakis, Vidiano This family-run estate was one of the earliest to produce high-quality vidiano in the late 1990s; this zesty, high-acid bottle is a textbook example of the late-ripening grape’s potential for nuance, complexity, and grace.
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Shana Clarke, Saveur, 15 May 2024
Just a speck in the elaborate web of scandal that seized Anaheim city government, to be sure, but a textbook case of how two-bit tyranny can strangle a righteous American Dream.
—Teri Sforza, Orange County Register, 10 May 2024
The bowl’s hemisphere can summon to mind the 18th-century French architect Étienne-Louis Boullée’s famous unbuilt monument to Newton, a textbook example of Enlightenment idealism.
—Michael Kimmelman Clement Pascal, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
By the time that the two titular stars team up and get involved in a zero-gravity battle royale that’s a textbook example of sound and fury signifying near-indecipherable noise and chaos, you’re left wondering why so little of this seems to land.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2024
Your situation is a textbook example of how discriminatory pay gaps operate.
—Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
But coerced adoptions only accelerate the dissolution of existing support systems: a textbook example of how colonial logic disrupts perfectly functional societies.
—John Washington, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
Related article The Maine gunman was a ‘textbook case’ for a state law designed to remove firearms from people like him.
—Emma Tucker, CNN, 15 Mar. 2024
Seems like a textbook example for when a team should force someone other than its opponent’s best weapon to beat them.
—Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2024
Shana Clarke, Saveur, 15 May 2024
Just a speck in the elaborate web of scandal that seized Anaheim city government, to be sure, but a textbook case of how two-bit tyranny can strangle a righteous American Dream.
—Teri Sforza, Orange County Register, 10 May 2024
The bowl’s hemisphere can summon to mind the 18th-century French architect Étienne-Louis Boullée’s famous unbuilt monument to Newton, a textbook example of Enlightenment idealism.
—Michael Kimmelman Clement Pascal, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
By the time that the two titular stars team up and get involved in a zero-gravity battle royale that’s a textbook example of sound and fury signifying near-indecipherable noise and chaos, you’re left wondering why so little of this seems to land.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2024
Your situation is a textbook example of how discriminatory pay gaps operate.
—Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
But coerced adoptions only accelerate the dissolution of existing support systems: a textbook example of how colonial logic disrupts perfectly functional societies.
—John Washington, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
Related article The Maine gunman was a ‘textbook case’ for a state law designed to remove firearms from people like him.
—Emma Tucker, CNN, 15 Mar. 2024
Seems like a textbook example for when a team should force someone other than its opponent’s best weapon to beat them.
—Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2024
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