throw light on
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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
She explains, “I did not wish to make light of the living, but rather to throw light on it, and shadow too.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2021
Here the beginning and the end of God’s revelation join hands and throw light on one another.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Dods, Marcus
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