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Finding the least taxing way to activate your inner circle could gratify — and edify — all involved, and restore a sense of control over your own well-being.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2022

Gonzalez’s main strategies are to allow Olga’s mother to edify the reader along with her children through her letters and to have characters speak to each other in blocks of exposition.

From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2022

Yet Moreno-Garcia aims not just to edify but to thrill.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2020

One story, The Millionaire, describes a disgraced man who undergoes ritual humiliation to edify people who want to witness “the version of the world you believe in”.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 14, 2020

Real visions, or inspirations which would edify and instruct, they are taught to deny.

From Key to the Science of Theology by Pratt, Parley P.

If art no longer shocks, it seldom edifies.

From Time Magazine Archive

This is an album that edifies even as it enchants.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ken Loach's film, written by Rona Munro and based on a true story, horrifies and edifies in equal measure.

From Time Magazine Archive

Your industry edifies me, and I am sure that you will eventually be a baronet and the President of the Royal College of Surgeons; and you shall relieve royal persons of their, vermiform appendix.

From The Magician by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learnèd lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always listening to himself appears.

From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 by Gilfillan, George

So I think he’s worked everywhere he could at as high a level as he could, and came back to run the Impossible Mission Force a great deal more edified.

From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2023

While we were edified, amused, enraged and reassured by what we told ourselves was the story of Afghanistan, an entirely different tale was unspooling outside the dominant narrative.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 2021

For over thirty years, Mr. Plaschke’s stories have edified the biggest stars in the Los Angeles sports world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2020

We’d been there for several hours by then, had consumed our blueberries and granola bars, were edified and overstimulated and thinking about making our way home after a while.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 22, 2017

Parsons, his attention caught by the trumpet call, sat listening with a sort of gaping solemnity, a sort of edified boredom.

From "1984" by George Orwell

All that matters in this moment is one of life's most edifying trivialities: snooker.

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026

Organized chronologically, employing memorabilia, instruments, performance wear, rare photos, video and edifying signage, the exhibit rises to the task admirably.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025

There’s nothing here that the viewer can’t glean from the documentary, and in fact, the doc is a far more edifying and affecting work than Safdie’s stylish regurgitation.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2025

It’s also a central pillar of the pair’s edifying new sitcom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2024

The atmosphere should probably sharpen your ears and restrain me to concentrate on those aspects which are tasty, edifying and constructive.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela