Usually means: Demonstrate behavior for others' emulation.
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  1. set an example: Merriam-Webster
  2. set an example: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. set an example: Wiktionary
  4. set an example: Dictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (set an example)

▸ verb:  To behave in a way that other people should. [with for ‘someone’]

Similar:
pattern, set the pace, take after, exemplify, practice what one preaches, conform, count, lead from the front, consider, bear oneself, more...

Opposite:
be bad influence, set bad example

Phrases:
to set an example, set as an example, more...

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Similar:
pattern, set the pace, take after, exemplify, practice what one preaches, conform, count, lead from the front, consider, bear oneself, more...

Opposite:
be bad influence, set bad example

Phrases:
to set an example, set as an example, more...



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