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by chriswarbo 1599 days ago
> Whats a common use case?

If we expand the discussion from "lambda calculus" to "pretty much every programming language", then "beta reduction" becomes "calling a function with an argument"

> Is there any practical example on this?

Given the above, you'll be able to find beta-reduction in practically all software ever written ;)