illustrate
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Real life news coverage of the 2022 disaster which killed almost 160 people was included in an opening scene of Modern Warfare 4 to illustrate a fictional invasion from North Korea.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Given that the contest switches abruptly from touch to tackle in midstream, does it illustrate how war’s brutality touches everything?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
Those figures represent ticket sales, not profits, but illustrate the potential value of such an arrangement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 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
“I made a second binding between the candle and a brazier to illustrate the Law of Conservation.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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He writes in there, but it’s a workshop too: he illustrates and he crafts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
The television ads case illustrates the conundrum of practical immunity.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2026
Friday’s buyback hike is Eni’s third of the year and illustrates how the conflict in the Middle East and record high refining margins are offering energy majors an unexpected windfall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Nevertheless, the reconstruction illustrates just how destructive even a relatively modest asteroid can be when it strikes the ocean.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026
An analogy to natural language illustrates the point.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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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
This looser relationship between the economy and the stock market is also illustrated by a declining correlation between the growth rates of GDP and the S&P 500’s earnings per share.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2026
The movie is a fantasy parable set in a fairy-tale village and divided into illustrated chapter titles to suggest children’s literature.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
The links connecting livestock and crops to germs were unforgettably illustrated for me by a hospital case about which I learned through a physician friend.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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
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
However, City have also achieved around £300m worth of player sales this summer, illustrating the vast turnover at the start of the post-Guardiola era.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
In recent years, Unite Here Local 11 has filed numerous complaints over the Inglewood facility, claiming various wage and health issues, illustrating a bitter battle over movement at the bargaining table.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
There was a biography and picture of the author and steel-cut engravings illustrating scenes from each play.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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