Example Sentences

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Still, the next few weeks will be illuminating for the Chargers.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2025

It will be illuminating to see how that plays out, Chenoweth notes, because for all of the sweat, planning, and research, there is only so much humans can do to shape the landscape.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 18, 2023

Let’s pick out one decision because I think it will be illuminating in a variety of ways.

From The Verge • Mar. 1, 2022

All this will be illuminating for many readers, but Tara is a less reliable guide when she uncritically embraces various new theories about the causes and effects of obesity.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 27, 2017

An examination of some of these will be illuminating to the reader.

From Analyzing Character by Blackford, Katherine M. H.