for example

First attested in the second half of the 16th century^[1].

• enPR: fôr′ ĭg-zăm′pəl, (when unstressed) fər-
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fəɹ ɪɡˈzɑːm.p(ə)l/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌfoɹ ɪɡˈzæm.pəl/; (when unstressed) /fəɹ-/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌfoːɹ ɪɡˈzæm.pəl/; (when unstressed) /fə-/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌfoːɹ əɡˈzɛm.pəl/; (when unstressed) /fə-/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˌfoɹ ɪɡˈzam.pəl/, /ˌfoɹ ɪɡˈzam.pʌl/; (when unstressed) /fəɹ-/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ˌfoːɾ ɪɡˈza(ː)m.pel/; (when unstressed) /fɜː(ɾ)-/, /fəɾ-/
• Hyphenation: for ex‧am‧ple

for example

2. (conjunctive) As an example.

   Synonyms: (formal, somewhat dated) as, e.g., for instance, (informal) like, such as

   The book has quite a few plot holes. For example, it's never explained why the main character came to town.

   • 1921, Alexis Thomson, Alexander Miles, Manual of Surgery:

     The more highly the injured part is endowed with sensory nerves the more marked is the shock; a crush of the hand, for example, is attended with a more intense degree of shock than a correspondingly severe crush of the foot

   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 12:

     For a structuralist like Edmund Leach, the structure is the meaning. Genesis, for example, is about incest taboos; all the rest is noise and mystification.

• Often written with the Latin initialism e.g. (exemplī grātiā), rarely with the initialism f.e.^[2] or f.ex.

• for one

• “for example”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.