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has been enlightening

  • present perfect progressive of enlighten (3rd person singular).

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Hence, watching reactions to major companies instituting return-to-office mandates has been enlightening.

From Salon Mar. 19, 2025

The coaching side at the MLB level has been enlightening for Negron.

From Seattle Times Apr. 21, 2022

It has been enlightening to see how scientists in this secretive arena see the open scientific enterprise as their best recourse in times of potential trouble.

From Nature May 2, 2012

But the experience of recent months has been enlightening in a way that only a novelist whose books are occasionally banned can appreciate.

From New York Times Oct. 27, 2011

Thence among the Romans, and all over the then enlightened parts of the world, and it has been enlightening the dark and benighted minds of men from then, down to this day.

From Walker's Appeal, with a Brief Sketch of His Life And Also Garnet's Address to the Slaves of the United States of America by Walker, David