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instructively

American  
[in-struhkt-iv-lee] / ɪnˈstrʌkt ɪv li /

adverb

  1. in a way that is instructive or enlightening.


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In Pride and Pleasure, Vaill uses two voices, applying tone aesthetically and instructively, almost as Miranda does.

From Slate Oct. 21, 2025

It’s ersatz, to be sure, but no more ersatz, say, than the world of Cusk’s novels, where everyone the narrator meets happens to be instructively and tirelessly voluble.

From The New Yorker Sep. 17, 2018

There was an instructively comparable non-crisis in Washington shortly after Andrew Jackson became president. 

From Salon Mar. 16, 2015

More instructively, he also suggested why studios have become so dependent on blockbusters.

From New York Times May 2, 2013

They’d dropped any masquerade and were just wonderfully, powerfully, and instructively themselves.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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