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exemplify
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    It exemplified the economic expansion of the manufacturing-based Rust Belt town.  (source)
    exemplified = acted as an example of
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    To what extent does his abominable behaviour exemplify the attitude of the present American administration?†  (source)
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    that made me as savagely demanding as Matthew Arnold in my insistence that the written word exemplify only the highest seriousness and truth, I treated these forlorn offspring of a thousand strangers' lonely and fragile desire with the magisterial, abstract loathing of an ape plucking vermin from his pelt.†  (source)
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    Katerina looked once more around the room with a light shake of the head as if it somehow exemplified the mystery of outcomes; then she said that she should go.†  (source)
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    The Prefect Council will be responsible for the workings of the new Dark Daughters and Sons, which includes being certain that from this day forth all members exemplify the following ideas: they should be authentic for air; they should be faithful for fire; they should be wise for water; they should be empathetic for earth; and they should be sincere for spirit.†  (source)
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    The world-old phenomenon of the contact of diverse races of men is to have new exemplification during the new century.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    His favorite biblical verse, Isaiah 1:18, exemplifies his passion for building coalitions: "Come now, let us reason together."†  (source)
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    Because I would be exemplifying things that are already undergoing a change.†  (source)
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    [16] In Recent Exemplifications of False Philology; London, 1872†  (source)
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    I paused, examining and analysing all the minutiae of causation, as exemplified in the change from life to death, and death to life, until from the midst of this darkness a sudden light broke in upon me—a light so brilliant and wondrous, yet so simple, that while I became dizzy with the immensity of the prospect which it illustrated, I was surprised that among so many men of genius who had directed their inquiries towards the same science, that I alone should be reserved to discover so astonishing a secret.†  (source)
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    It was she who trusted him, who insisted on trusting him as she insisted on his eating: by conspiracy, in secret, making a secret of the very fact which the act of trusting was supposed to exemplify.†  (source)
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    Indeed, to behold this distinguished man ....occupying the chair of the Senate in the morning, and afterwards walking home through the streets and taking his seat among his fellow citizens as their equal, conversing amicably with men over whom he had just presided ....was a singular spectacle, and a striking exemplification of the state of society in America at this period.†  (source)
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    Branca who is twenty-five but makes you think he exemplifies ancient toil.†  (source)
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