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example
Noun
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If I give an example of something, I name one of that type of thing.
A baseball, a softball, a football, and a soccer ball are examples of balls.
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An example is a model of what something else of the same type should be like.
Look at the example of a model airplane to see how your model airplane should be built.
excursion
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noun
(= pleasure trip, sashay)
a journey taken for pleasure
many summer excursions to the shore
it was merely a pleasure trip
after cautious sashays into the field
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noun
(= digression)
wandering from the main path of a journey