Certain and Textbook

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Certain adjective - Known but not named.

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Textbook and certain are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Textbook" instead an adjective "Certain".

Nearby Words: certainty, certainly

Textbook adjective - Constituting, serving as, or worthy of being a pattern to be imitated.

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Certain and textbook are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Certain" instead an adjective "Textbook".

Commander Sam Vimes from the Discworld series would be a textbook Ideal Hero except that, in his words, "in certain specific areas" (mostly fighting) he has no rules whatsoever.

Source: Unscrupulous Hero
A Protagonist Is Ryu: A textbook example, and quite likely a co-Trope Namer with a certain other Ryu in another Capcom franchise.

Source: Franchise / Breath of Fire
The lethal masks from Halloween III: Season of the Witch are textbook examples; they are just like any other mask, but if its wearer sees a certain commercial, all hell breaks loose.

Source: Murderous Mask

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