case in point
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3.7
- idiom
- Informal
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ejemplo claro
- Her presentation on climate change was a case in point that highlighted the urgency of environmental action.
- obvious case in point
- provide a case in point
- a good case in point
The case of Ronnell Broome is a good case in point.
- The case of Ronnell Broome is a good case in point.
- Tristram Shandy's meandering account of his birth is a case in point.
- If we look at a case where they get at cross purposes, Google is a tremendous case in point.
- And here is a case in point when I showed you the cycle that everybody goes through with Trump.
- So the Ebola situation, I think is a real case in point that we don't know what the next challenge facing us is going to be.
- And so Aristotle says, you know, madness, irascibility, other things like that are cases in point.
- So here's a case in point that that office has to be tight.
- And that is very much case in point for AI.
- Well, I, I didn't see a whole lot of people weeping when Fleetwood Mac, you know, case in point, or The Moody Blues or, you know, come on.
- But case in point, it's like it didn't mean as much to me.
- Well, case in point, just yesterday, I'm on a I'm on a zoom call and I'm facing a window in the, in my, my office in the creative house faces the window.
Examples
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The well-known laws of learning set forth by E. L. Thorndike are a case in point.
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The recent response to the Ebola epidemic is a case in point.
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And here is a case in point when I showed you the cycle that everybody goes through with Trump.
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This last commercial is a case in point.
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The 2016 presidential contest is a case in point.
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Now, your lizard in the rock is a case in point.
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Namibia's 1992 regional and local authority council elections are a good case in point.
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Iraq's ethnic and civil war in the aftermath of Desert Storm is a case in point.
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The almost violent antipathy of many Tea Partiers toward the Fed is a good case in point.
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Ecotrust's work in the Willapa Bay area provides a case in point (see inset).
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
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1.0
A specific case used to explain a point
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3.2
An example or story that helps make a point clear
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3.5
A typical example of a situation or problem
How Illustrative
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an instance that illustrates a point' is directly and compositionally derived from 'case' (an instance) + 'in' (pertaining to/within) + 'point' (the issue or argument). This is a common, cross-linguistic compositional pattern (an instance relevant to a point), so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will very likely infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Case in point comes from lawyers who used a case (a real example) to prove a specific point in court. So today a case in point means 'an example that clearly shows the idea or argument you are making'.