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illustrate

[il-uh-strayt, ih-luhs-trayt] / ˈɪl əˌstreɪt, ɪˈlʌs treɪt /




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“And then you have to illustrate, in a good manner, what the vision is for how we’re going to play and improve the results.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

The latest economic numbers amply illustrate the challenge of actually delivering them.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

Fielder wants to use the sketch to illustrate how Holmes’s description of the effectiveness of the Theranos device was confusing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Other medical records, even a video of the signing, can help illustrate the absence of any coercion or undue influence.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

In short, the variable outcomes of the Austronesian expansion strikingly illustrate the role of food production in human population movements.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

That operating margin illustrates that Microsoft is able to retain about half of the revenue that it brings in after accounting for the cost of business operations.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

He writes in there, but it’s a workshop too: he illustrates and he crafts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

To me, that just illustrates how much more complex a big auto CMO’s job is now.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

The possible companion in CD-35 2722 illustrates why that definition matters.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

Hiskey’s story illustrates just how hard it was for Soviet spies to get at American secrets.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin

In her dissenting opinion, Justice Elena Kagan illustrated the consequences of eliminating these limits with the example of a single check from one individual for $551,300.

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026

The menus would be illustrated by hand, which sounds charming until you’ve spent an entire afternoon trying to get the shading right on a watercolor artichoke.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

The pair's duopoly - splitting all of the eight Grand Slam titles in 2024 and 2025 between them - was illustrated by the huge gap to the rest of the field.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

“The Boys” co-creator Darick Robertson illustrated the grinning gargoyle on its label.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

There was one display case featuring eight games with amazingly illustrated box tops.

From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein

A wave of apparent cyberattacks hit supermarket freezers in several European countries this week, spurring investigations and illustrating how even mundane physical infrastructure is vulnerable to hackers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

Their eventual collision could help produce an even more massive black hole, illustrating a process that may have been essential to the growth of the universe's earliest cosmic giants.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

It means that China has the leading two players in the rankings for the first time, further illustrating the country's position as a snooker superpower.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

The rotation into long-dated Treasury ETFs is more than five standard deviations away from its historical average, illustrating just how extreme this shift is relative to normal activity.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

“Kapow,” he says, illustrating the explosion with his hands.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson


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