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Also, for instance . As an illustration of something, as in Dress casually, in blue jeans, for example , or This program has problems—for instance, it's hard to retrieve lost data . The first expression, which dates from the late 1500s, is used throughout this book to illustrate how an idiom is used. The variant dates from the mid-1600s.

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The authors of the Communications Earth and Environment paper cite, for example, research showing hydrochloric acid emitted from solid rocket launches killing fish after it leached into nearby water.

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Jobs may be affected by companies' responses to tariffs, for example.

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People can work in the group's large array of institutions that include hospitals and emergency services, for example.

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The National Weather Service, for example, could be commercialized, according to Project 2025.

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Some tycoons have crafted named benefices: the Broad and David Geffen foundations, for example.

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