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throw light on

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"There's still meat on the bone," he says, adding that he is glad he helped throw light on the subject, even though his own case was not successful.

From BBC • Aug. 1, 2025

Investors awaited factory production data from the euro zone at 0800 GMT that could throw light on the pace of economic growth.

From Reuters • Aug. 1, 2022

Those books helped throw light on the so-called Salt Lake City scandal involving allegations of bribes used by the Salt Lake Organizing Committee to win the 2002 Winter Olympics.

From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2022

I think NYTimes could take this opportunity to throw light on this aspect.

From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2019

We shall find it profitable as well as pleasant, to glance at the principal points in his history, as they tend to throw light on the Genius of Scotland.

From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Turnbull, Robert

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