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| NOUN: | 1. Fabric used especially as a symbol: banderole, banner, banneret, color (used in plural), ensign, flag1, jack, oriflamme, pennant, pennon, streamer. See SUBSTITUTE. 2. One that is worthy of imitation or duplication: beau ideal, example, exemplar, ideal, mirror, model, paradigm, pattern. See GOOD. 3. A means by which individuals are compared and judged: benchmark, criterion, gauge, mark, measure, test, touchstone, yardstick. See USUAL. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Having or arising from authority: authoritative, conclusive, official, sanctioned. See TRUE. 2. Being of no special quality or type: average, common, commonplace, cut-and-dried, formulaic, garden, garden-variety, indifferent, mediocre, ordinary, plain, routine, run-of-the-mill, stock, undistinguished, unexceptional, unremarkable. See GOOD, USUAL.
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