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Today's Word "exemplar"

Model to be imitated on

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exemplar \ig-ZEM-plar; -pluhr\ (noun) - 1 : A model or pattern to be copied or imitated. 2 : A typical or standard specimen. 3 : An ideal model or type. 4 : A copy of a book or text.

"The first step in dirt analysis is to check known soil from the scene -- an exemplar -- against the sample the criminalist believes came from the perp." -- Jeffery Deaver, 'The Empty Chair

 

Exemplar derives from Latin exemplum, "example," from eximere, "to take out," from ex-, "out" + emere, "to take."


 

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