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Exhibit A
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exhibita
English
2018 June 24
Etymology
From the conventional way of labelling the first piece of physical evidence used in a criminal trial.
Pronunciation
en /ɪɡˈzɪbɪt ˌeɪ̯/ /ɛɡ-/ RP
en /iɡˈzibət ˌeɪ̯/ GA
en en-au-Exhibit A.ogg AU
en Ex hib it A
Noun
Exhibit A -
en figurative The foremost example, often with a negative connotation.
en exemplar<id:cardinal example of a class, good or bad>
en The legislature can’t fight corruption when the politicians are Exhibit A.
en Stefan Bachmann A Drop of Night New York, N.Y. Greenwillow Books 2016 978-0-06-244959-7 Exhibit A—I had a boyfriend once. I was fifteen. He was fifteen. He had green eyes and floppy hair and liked Vampire Weekend, and if that doesn't guarantee a life of shared bliss, I don't know what does.
en John Simpson Marshallers of Words The Word Detective: A Life in Words: From Shenanigan to Selfie London w:Little, Brown and Company 2016 978-1-4087-0660-2 The Word Detective: Searching or the Meaning of It All at the Oxford English Dictionary: A Memoir New York, N.Y. w:Basic Books 2016 51 https://books.google.com/books?id=NPyqCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT44 978-0-465-06069-6 From 1924 onwards my little collection of evidence contained a mixture of literary references. Exhibit A was Evelyn Waugh in Vile Bodies (published in 1930):
en Alex McLevy Making a Killing: The Brief Life and Bloody Death of the Post-Scream Slasher Revival https://www.avclub.com/making-a-killing-the-brief-life-and-bloody-death-of-th-1819784777 https://web.archive.org/web/20180305120228/https://www.avclub.com/making-a-killing-the-brief-life-and-bloody-death-of-th-1819784777 5 March 2018 w:The A.V. Club 27 October 2017 Characters commenting on their own predicament as though they were the armchair jokesters of MST3K is almost never as smart as a film’s creative team thinks it is—something for which Urban Legend serves as Exhibit A.
en Léonie Chao-Fong w:António Guterres Biden addresses UN and will warn of Russian ‘brutalizing’ Ukraine without consequence; UN chief says ‘world becoming unhinged’ The Guardian 2023-09-19 https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/sep/19/russia-ukraine-war-news-zelensky-united-nations-speech-biden-live-updates 0261-3077 When countries break those pledges, they create a world of insecurity for everyone. Exhibit A: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Translations
the foremost example
Italian: it caso più eclatante m
Further reading
Exhibit A Exhibit A (disambiguation)