Example
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It's a place where, for example, if this were India, in this room, only three of us would have a car.
If I asked all of you, for example, in this room, what you want in a coffee, you know what you'd say?
And the
example
he used was coffee.
Rives: So that's "Close Encounters," and the main character is all worked up because aliens, momentously, have chosen to show themselves to earthlings at four in the morning, which does make that a very solid
example.
There's a very cute
example
here from "Calvin and Hobbes."
In the
example
I shared with you today, we had two goals.
So what I want to argue is this is one
example
of where a systematic, really scientific approach can actually bring you a real understanding of pheromones.
This is another example, also happens to be from Norway, of the Norwegian Arctic cod.
It uses a lot less fresh water than, for example, cattle, where you have to irrigate a field so that you can grow the food to graze the cattle.
Second example, more recent, is elegant work done by Helen Hobbs, who said, "I'm going to look at individuals who have very high lipid levels, and I'm going to try to find those people with high lipid levels who don't go on to get heart disease."
So for example, this is one of probably thousands of letters and drawings that kids sent to the Bush administration, begging it to protect the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act, and these were sent back in the mid-2000s, when awareness of climate change was suddenly surging.
But when you look, for example, at the college hat, you know that this doesn't represent the accessory you wear on your head when you're being handed your diploma, but rather the whole idea of college.
So you take a symbol, any symbol, for
example
the heart and the arrow, which most of us would read as the symbol for love, and I'm an artist, so I can draw this in any given degree of realism or abstraction.
You couldn't give an account of the natural world that didn't say something about its relationship, for example, to the creation story in the Abrahamic tradition, the creation story in the first book of the Torah.
For example, every time anybody had a drink, more or less, they poured a little bit on the ground in what's called the libation, and they gave some to the ancestors.
For example, personality.
For example, name your best friend, your favorite kind of vacation, what's your favorite hobby, what's your favorite kind of music.
No, it matters quite a bit, and I'll give you an
example
of why.
For example, we are all going to die.
This person might want to run away too, but fortified by the sun's example, he might just rise.
I'll give you a simple
example.
It's a pretty sophisticated
example
of computers actually understanding human language, and it actually got its knowledge by reading Wikipedia and several other encyclopedias.
Incidentally, black and latino LGBT folks were at the forefront of this rebellion, and it's a really interesting
example
of the intersection of our struggles against racism, homophobia, gender identity and police brutality.
For example, we had an exercise where we all stood in a circle, and each person had to do the world's worst tap dance, and everybody else applauded and cheered you on, supporting you onstage.
Because you see, whenever people do anything, for
example
if I want to touch this blackboard, my brain first builds up a schema, a prediction of exactly what my muscles will do before I even start moving my hand, and if I get blocked, if my schema doesn't match reality, that causes extra stress called cognitive dissonance.
Here's an
example
where things don't match your schema.
For example, if one actor says, "Here is a pool of water," and the other actor says, "No, that's just a stage," the improvisation is over.
For example, we were stuck for a year trying to understand the intricate biochemical networks inside our cells, and we said, "We are deeply in the cloud," and we had a playful conversation where my student Shai Shen Orr said, "Let's just draw this on a piece of paper, this network," and instead of saying, "But we've done that so many times and it doesn't work," I said, "Yes, and let's use a very big piece of paper," and then Ron Milo said, "Let's use a gigantic architect's blueprint kind of paper, and I know where to print it," and we printed out the network and looked at it, and that's where we made our most important discovery, that this complicated network is just made of a handful of simple, repeating interaction patterns like motifs in a stained glass window.
And we have made some questionable choices, for
example
in 2006 when the word of the year was "Plutoed," to mean demoted.
To show you what I mean, we'll look at an example, but before we do, I want to explain what the dictionary editors are trying to deal with in this usage note.
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