the genuine article
noun
: the real thing
A lot of people pretend to be cowboys, but he's the genuine article.
Examples of the genuine article in a Sentence
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This dude, the genuine article, there will never be another like him.
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Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 29 July 2024
But this Matlock was created by Jennie Snyder Urman, whose great CW series Jane the Virgin was never content to stay confined by its telenovela formula, constantly toggling between parody and the genuine article.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2024
There’s a word-of-mouth element to the scene: When fans hear the genuine article, the news travels.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 22 June 2024
At times, these experiments feel like a close, loving approximation of the genuine article.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2024
As a consumer, I’ve been conditioned to prize the real deal, the genuine article.
—Bynick Rockel, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2024
In a world full of glossy fakery, its self-vandalizing, clown-school bloodletting was the genuine article.
—Elizabeth Nelson, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2023
The result is essentially a two-tier business model where lonely guys looking for a 3 a.m. chat session can talk with Marjorie’s machine mimic, while die-hard fans willing to shell out a bit more can pay for the genuine article.
—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2023
But while most of these are in at least some sense a Twitter clone, Bluesky feels like the genuine article: a near one-for-one replica of Twitter in its early days, with the key difference that it is decentralized.
—Casey Newton, The Verge, 2 May 2023
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Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 29 July 2024
But this Matlock was created by Jennie Snyder Urman, whose great CW series Jane the Virgin was never content to stay confined by its telenovela formula, constantly toggling between parody and the genuine article.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2024
There’s a word-of-mouth element to the scene: When fans hear the genuine article, the news travels.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 22 June 2024
At times, these experiments feel like a close, loving approximation of the genuine article.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2024
As a consumer, I’ve been conditioned to prize the real deal, the genuine article.
—Bynick Rockel, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2024
In a world full of glossy fakery, its self-vandalizing, clown-school bloodletting was the genuine article.
—Elizabeth Nelson, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2023
The result is essentially a two-tier business model where lonely guys looking for a 3 a.m. chat session can talk with Marjorie’s machine mimic, while die-hard fans willing to shell out a bit more can pay for the genuine article.
—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2023
But while most of these are in at least some sense a Twitter clone, Bluesky feels like the genuine article: a near one-for-one replica of Twitter in its early days, with the key difference that it is decentralized.
—Casey Newton, The Verge, 2 May 2023
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