h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

exemplar \ig-ZEM-plar; -plur\, 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.

What charmed me was the idea of a boy too young to understand the lecture but not too young to recognize the eminent
man on the platform as his model, the exemplar of what would become his own life work.
--William Zinsser, "A Travel Nut's Library," New York Times, August 26, 1990

Our need, he declared in his 1981 inaugural address, was "to renew ourselves here in our own land" so that we would
again "be the exemplar of freedom and a beacon of hope for those who do not now have freedom."
--Frances Fitzgerald, Way Out There in the Blue

To suggest that this exemplar of financial probity was enriching himself at public expense was to shake the very
foundations of the new Republic.
--William Safire, Scandalmonger


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