textbook case

collocation in English

meaningsoftextbookandcase

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textbook
noun[C]
uk
/ˈtekst.bʊk/us
/ˈtekst.bʊk/
a book that contains detailed information about a subject for people who are studying ...
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case
noun
uk
/keɪs/us
/keɪs/
a particular situation or example ...
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(Definition oftextbookandcasefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftextbook case

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None of those vices is unprecedented, but the clause is atextbookcase.
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The coastal belt is, without doubt, atextbookcasefor two metropolitan districts.
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She really provided us with atextbookcase.
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It is atextbookcaseof how collective action can work.
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This is really atextbookcaseof where the single market legislation has not actually delivered.
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I would say the story provides something of atextbookcaseof open government.
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I do not want to make this atextbookcase.
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As he says, this is almost atextbookcaseof very technical legislation.
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This is atextbookcaseof an otherwise sane man hallucinating a whole economic recovery—just as three years ago he hallucinated an economic miracle.
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The only others to have benefited are our military academies, which now have atextbookcaseof how not to wage a campaign.
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Tourism is atextbookcase, and it is an entirely apposite example of an industry in which the minimum wage could be suspended because of short-term economic problems.
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Hailsham is almost atextbookcaseand is the better for having at its centre both a cattle market and a supermarket.
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It was a perfect conversion, atextbookcase.
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The closure and demolition of the school is atextbookcaseof short term thinking.
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It has become atextbookcasein game theory.
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The standardtextbookcaseof such a rocket is the ideal case where all of the fuel is converted to photons which are radiated in the same direction.
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We go on to face situations relevantly different, to some extent, from these clear textbook cases.
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Krapp is not atextbookcase.
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Leavenworth as atextbookcaseof how to deal with a numerically superior enemy.
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