The answer is: "prototype" .
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"<span>When forming a concept, people often develop a best example, or
<u> prototype </u> , of a category."
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The part of the excerpt that supports the claim that Paine believed the
human cost of the colonists' armed struggle against the British was well
worth the struggle might be 'Let it be told to the future world, that
in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive,
that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth
to meet and to repulse it.'
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