"exempli gratia" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1869, Richard F[rancis] Burton, Explorations of the Highlands of the Brazil; with a Full Account of the Gold and Diamond Mines. Also, Canoeing Down 1500 miles of the Great River São Francisco, from Sabará to the Sea., volume I, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], page 172:",
          "text": "Exempli gratiâ, the venerable London Stone of many fables.",
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          "ref": "1886, A. P. Stone, editor, The Law Reports. […] Appeal Cases before the House of Lords and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, Also Peerage Cases., volume XI, London: […] for the Council of Law Reporting by William Clowes and Sons, Limited, […], page 324:",
          "text": "Even if the respondents had been liable for their administration to the same extent as private trustees, I should still have thought that it was not only within the competency, but that it was the duty of the Court, before pronouncing any decree, to consider how far the respondents might be entitled to recoup themselves, by taking, exempli gratia, the furniture of the school, or by accumulating the future income of these bequests, and what effect their so doing might have upon the efficient maintenance of the school.",
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          "ref": "1917 March–April, Alfredo Taglialatela, “The Church of Rome and Morality”, in William V. Kelley, editor, The Methodist Review, volume XCIX, number 2 (whole 544) / fifth series, volume XXXIII, number 2, New York, N.Y., Cincinnati, Oh.: The Methodist Book Concern, page 213:",
          "text": "See, exempli gratia, the encyclical of Leo XIII on the occasion of the third centennial of the Blessed Canisius, who organized, with Emperor Ferdinand, the first merciless repression of the Reformation in Austria.",
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          "english": "Journal of Papyrology and Epigraphy",
          "ref": "1967, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik [Journal of Papyrology and Epigraphy], page 78:",
          "text": "There is not enough for certainty, but I set out below a possible scheme, exempli gratia.",
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        "For the sake of an example."
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