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
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
I think NYTimes could take this opportunity to throw light on this aspect.
From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2019
This little contradiction may throw light on the rumor that Booth has been urged into this scheme of temporal salvation.
From Salvation Syrup; Or, Light On Darkest England by G. W. (George William) Foote
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