textbook case/example
noun
: a classic, perfect case/example
The scandal is a textbook case/example of corporate greed.
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Its mission, accomplishments, and administrative practices offer a textbook case of civil society done right.
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Jack Fowler, National Review, 7 Apr. 2025
Playing Seok required learning more about antisocial behavior and yet the character is more than a textbook example of a disorder.
—Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
With the exception of any prior mental illness, Mom was a textbook case of postpartum psychosis: Restlessness, disordered thinking, paranoia, panic, auditory and visual hallucinations, and most dangerously—voices and thoughts about needing to kill your baby or yourself.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 16 Feb. 2025
The show is a textbook example of the sort of show the corporation is looking to do more of, representing underrepresented communities in parts of the UK that don’t always get their fair share.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 24 Mar. 2025
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Jack Fowler, National Review, 7 Apr. 2025
Playing Seok required learning more about antisocial behavior and yet the character is more than a textbook example of a disorder.
—Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
With the exception of any prior mental illness, Mom was a textbook case of postpartum psychosis: Restlessness, disordered thinking, paranoia, panic, auditory and visual hallucinations, and most dangerously—voices and thoughts about needing to kill your baby or yourself.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 16 Feb. 2025
The show is a textbook example of the sort of show the corporation is looking to do more of, representing underrepresented communities in parts of the UK that don’t always get their fair share.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 24 Mar. 2025
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