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- n a standard or typical example
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- The prototype confirmed their worst fears: "In the world of terrorist weaponry," writes Suskind, "this was the equivalent of splitting the atom.
- Before his 50th birthday, the little Spaniard from Malaga had become the very prototype of the modern artist as public figure.
- Of course, the Hy-wire is just a prototype, and getting the first production units on the road by 2010 would require the notoriously sluggish auto industry to shift gears a lot .