for example

for example

A phrase used before the speaker gives a specific example to further explain or illustrate what they are referring to. You should bring something in case you get cold on the plane, like a sweater or scarf, for example.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

for example

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 American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

for example

As an illustrative instance: Wear something simple; for example, a skirt and blouse.
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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
See also:
  • for instance
  • eggs is eggs
  • illustrate
  • illustrate (something) with (something)
  • illustrate with
  • How long is a piece of string?
  • from my cold, dead hands
  • how about
  • how/what about...?
  • (as) sure as eggs (is eggs)
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Baker was appreciative of the Cape Dutch tradition and sought, in his early work in Cape Town (for example, Groot Schuur, 1890), to incorporate its elements into his already eclectic but sensitive and skilful architecture.
Both Brown and On Kawara, for example, may liken the production of art to daily routine, but they also seem to share an ideal of existential freedom that is a myth of its own: they may identify art with life, but it is a life somehow liberated, and completely in the hands of the artist, who is still, dangerously, seen as a demiurge.
As it learned additional examples, it began to organize its knowledge of exceptions into clusters- for example, "ring" and "rang," "sing" and "sang" would belong to the same cluster.
Koller (1988), for example, notes that humor can be used by groups to enhance social bonding, provide relief from stress, give expression to aggressive feeling, celebrate life, reinforce or undermine stereotyping, provide therapy or catharsis or shield us against outside attacks.
And you have other large assets - life insurance, for example, or retirement benefits - that are controlled by the designation of a beneficiary and also pass outside the will.
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