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
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
The papers also throw light on the legal firms, financial institutions and accountants working in the sector and on the jurisdictions that adopt offshore tax rules to attract money.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2017
He was well versed in seamanship of all kinds, and used his experience habitually to throw light on abstruse problems of dynamics.
From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Andrew Gray
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