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
“These manuscripts can throw light on part of Africa’s past.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 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
It must remember, he said, that the phenomena or “accidents” are what really throw light on the nature or the “substance” of the Soul.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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