example
/ɪgˈzæm·pəl/ n [C] (BEHAVIOR)Definition
› a person or a person’s behavior when considered as suitable to copy: We want our teachers to set a good example. They followed the example of their father, who also played basketball in college.
(Definition of example n (BEHAVIOR) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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