textbook case/example
noun
: a classic, perfect case/example
The scandal is a textbook case/example of corporate greed.
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The textbook case is the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.
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Graham Allison, Foreign Affairs, 5 Apr. 2022
The globalized, industrialized banana exists as a textbook example of monoculture under mounting threat from blight.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2024
Maddie, whose literary hopes were discouraged by her conservative milieu, is both a textbook case of the problem with no name and the epitome of an ambition monster.
—Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2024
Anne Hathaway — The Dark Knight Rises (2012) Anne Hathaway's take on Selina Kyle is a textbook example of contemporizing a timely character, which was emblematic of what Christopher Nolan did with the Dark Knight trilogy.
—Rendy Jones, EW.com, 19 July 2024
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Graham Allison, Foreign Affairs, 5 Apr. 2022
The globalized, industrialized banana exists as a textbook example of monoculture under mounting threat from blight.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2024
Maddie, whose literary hopes were discouraged by her conservative milieu, is both a textbook case of the problem with no name and the epitome of an ambition monster.
—Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2024
Anne Hathaway — The Dark Knight Rises (2012) Anne Hathaway's take on Selina Kyle is a textbook example of contemporizing a timely character, which was emblematic of what Christopher Nolan did with the Dark Knight trilogy.
—Rendy Jones, EW.com, 19 July 2024
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