instructively
Americanadverb
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The machines failed in opposite directions, often instructively.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
In Pride and Pleasure, Vaill uses two voices, applying tone aesthetically and instructively, almost as Miranda does.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2025
“Lucio Fontana: On the Threshold,” crisply curated by Iria Candela, is less auspicious, though it is instructively timed for reflecting on recently changed perceptions of modern art.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 28, 2019
But the Chiuri take on Paris, as expressed in an eclectic line-up of slogan T-shirts, houndstooth capes, embroidered denim and tiered lace, is an instructively unconventional one.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 18, 2017
They’d dropped any masquerade and were just wonderfully, powerfully, and instructively themselves.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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