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exemplary

 adjective
     
ex‧em‧pla‧ry
1 excellent and providing a good example for people to follow:
a company with an exemplary record on environmental issues
2 [only before noun] an exemplary punishment is very severe and is intended to stop other people from committing the same crime
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