as in to illustrate
to show or make clear by using examples
in your review you don't really exemplify your points with specific examples from the novel
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Which, in a spooky kind of way, exemplifies the Specials’ own mission.
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Ian Penman, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
No program better exemplifies the organization’s impact than the New Works Fest, which kicks off this weekend with two premieres.
—Andrew Gilbert, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2025
The jury winners this year hail from Cyprus, Spain, Germany, Iran, Taiwan and the U.S. and exemplify the best of creative independent filmmaking, covering subjects ranging from immigration, pay equity, environmental dangers, unwanted pregnancy, neuroscience and hempcrete construction.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 15 Feb. 2025
Instead, the chief judge used the opportunity to issue a clarion call for judicial review of the massive sentences that have fueled the crisis of mass incarceration, exemplified by the almost 7,500 people serving life or long-term sentences in New York prisons.
—Steve Zeidman, New York Daily News, 11 Feb. 2025
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Ian Penman, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
No program better exemplifies the organization’s impact than the New Works Fest, which kicks off this weekend with two premieres.
—Andrew Gilbert, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2025
The jury winners this year hail from Cyprus, Spain, Germany, Iran, Taiwan and the U.S. and exemplify the best of creative independent filmmaking, covering subjects ranging from immigration, pay equity, environmental dangers, unwanted pregnancy, neuroscience and hempcrete construction.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 15 Feb. 2025
Instead, the chief judge used the opportunity to issue a clarion call for judicial review of the massive sentences that have fueled the crisis of mass incarceration, exemplified by the almost 7,500 people serving life or long-term sentences in New York prisons.
—Steve Zeidman, New York Daily News, 11 Feb. 2025
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