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Noun: object lesson
  1. Punishment intended as a warning to others
    "they decided to make an object lesson of him";
    - example, deterrent example, lesson

Derived forms: object lessons

Type of: admonition, monition, warning, word of advice

Encyclopedia: Object lesson

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