Example Sentences

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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

It is possible that "Tess of the Durbervilles," or "A Window in Thrums" has been newly received, and has been enlightening your mind and conscience as to your relations to the world about you.

From On the Vice of Novel Reading. Being a brief in appeal, pointing out errors of the lower tribunal. by Allison, Young Ewing