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Shall I use "Example 1 or 2", or "Case 1 and 2" or "Scenario 1 and 2", or any other word? These three words all sound like they refer to imaged situations, and not real events that had happened.
I hope I have made my point clear.
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Terry Richards
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B D Finch
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30 years in IT, Engineering degree.
Native in: English (Variants: British, UK, US) 
Works in: French to English, English
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I would also argue against "case". I feel that case is generally best used for an exhaustive list of mutually exclusive items. Case 1, the cat is alive. Case 2, the cat is dead. Heisenberg would add a third case! A list that is incomplete can always be terminated with the catch-all case "otherwise".
Examples are just that, not exclusive and not necessarily a complete list. For example, the cat can be black or white. But it could also be black and white or many other colours. This is the situation here, you are not suggesting that your two examples are the only possibilities, you are just showing the sort of things that can happen.
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In response to your other suggestions, I would say that event, incident and instance all refer to a very specific thing whereas example is more general.
An event/incident/instance: The aircraft component was manufactured incorrectly because the engineer did not understand the imperial units and incorrectly converted inches to millimeters.
An example: Not all engineers understand imperial units and mistakes have occurred because inches were incorrectly converted to millimeters.
Obviously, there is a lot of overlap between these terms and it would be hard to establish an exact rule for which one is preferable. It also depends on your examples - are they specific events or more general? One possible guide is whether you could attach a definite date and time to it - if you can it's probably more of an event. If not it's more of an example.
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Tony M
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Thanks Tony
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Victoria Britten
: Precisely!
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Thanks Victoria
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