example above vs above example

Both "example above" and "above example" are correct and commonly used in English. The choice between the two depends on the emphasis you want to give in the sentence. If you want to highlight the example first, use "example above." If you want to emphasize the location or position of the example, use "above example."

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example above

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used when you want to refer to an example that has been mentioned earlier in the text or discussion.

Examples:

As shown in the example above, the results were inconclusive.
Please refer to the example above for further clarification.

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These are, for instance, competition fines and recovery orders to private and public debtors with regard to the management of Community projects (as in the example above).
In the example above, NCBs calculate the quarterly adjustments for the monthly series as the aggregation of the monthly adjustments included within the quarter.
In the example above, the & kword; Data file is associated with & kword; (the application). These file associations are crucial to the functioning of & kde;.
In the example above, only the users fred, karl and daisy are allowed to dial out, as well as every user with a UID of 0 (so you do n't have to explicitly list root in the file).
In the example above, the monthly stocks in March are equal to the sum of the quarterly stocks for March i.e. the monthly stocks in March of «loans to domestic other resident sectors» are equal to the sum of the quarterly breakdown.
Enter a command just as you normally would if you opened a new shell and were going to issue that command. For our first example above, you might type ssh administration.
Taking the example above, M8 = diameter, and 16 = length.
It was clear from the example above that the product description text string does not include any information on the coating used by the Indian domestic producer.
The filter is derived from the Particle Trace logo script (FileCreateLogosParticle Trace), which creates the text effect shown in the example above.
Typing in the code example above from the text box gives you the following output:
Python-Fu is not limited to just calling procedures from the PDB (GIMP procedural database). To create a new image object like in the example above, you can also type
This link should be similar to the one mentioned in the example above.
This filter is derived from the Frosty logo script (FileCreateLogosFrosty in the image window), which creates a frozen logo like the example above.
The label shown above may be adapted in such a way that the layout differs from the example above; however, the content shall meet the above prescriptions.

Alternatives:

above example
example provided earlier
preceding example
earlier example
example mentioned previously

above example

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used when you want to emphasize the location or position of the example in relation to other elements in the text.