Example Sentences

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They are illuminating insights into interesting corners of our country.

From BBC • Aug. 21, 2023

Massachusetts just started reporting on this and the data are illuminating.

From Washington Post • Feb. 2, 2022

A year into the pandemic, shows that let us travel vicariously have become as irritating as they are illuminating — so we’re getting back to normal.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2021

Taken together, the results are illuminating, and the light they shed reveals some very disturbing facts.

From Salon • Mar. 16, 2020

Here, the results of recent molecular biological studies are illuminating in linking germs to the rise of food production, in Eurasia much more than in the Americas.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond