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object lesson
noun
- a practical or concrete illustration of a principle.
object lesson
noun
- a convincing demonstration of some principle or ideal
- (esp formerly) a lesson in which a material object forms the basis of the teaching and is available to be inspected
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of object lesson1
Example Sentences
Asked whether Perry’s flop 2024 album “143” served as a kind of object lesson — a cautionary tale, perhaps, regarding the challenges in moving between TV and music — Underwood said, “I don’t really think about it.”
But it’s actually more like an object lesson, or a warning to those who insist that whatever else may go wrong, a stable and established liberal democracy cannot collapse into chaos, dictatorship or civil war.
Put it all together, and the Boeing story looks like an object lesson in what happens when management takes its eye off the ball — or more precisely, puts it eye on the wrong ball.
South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, is an object lesson in the conflict between two competing theories of how we should think about racism in America today.
His remarks were meant as an object lesson.
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