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It sometimes feels like our information-stuffed age has done little to inform or edify but a great deal to buttress those who think they have all the facts on their side.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 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

While there is, indeed, a camp of leadership who argue that it’s wiser to keep people in the door and continue to edify them, Cordileone is not among them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2021

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

In the prospect of spending a day with him, he said: 'As I always edify full as much in that man's company as at church, I promise myself to be much wiser the day following.'

From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Robert Cochrane

If art no longer shocks, it seldom edifies.

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

This is an album that edifies even as it enchants.

From Time Magazine Archive

To see them so surrendered to the obedience of the Catholic Church, and so fond of the churches that were soon built by the care and solicitude of Ours, edifies and consoles one.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55 1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by James Alexander Robertson

He opens his budget and edifies us with a speech—one-half the house goes away.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators by Elbert Hubbard

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

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

Whatever the two justices’ modest deficiencies in literary criticism, our contemporary public life would be edified by not only their jurisprudence but also their graces.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 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

They prepare students to discern right from wrong, truth from lies—a process so edifying it can be, as Mr. Kessler advises, as “fun” and “addictive” as any tech.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025

Brooks insists on seeing all this as an edifying story of a nation’s rise, albeit with a few bumps in the road.

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2025

Nik goes further and says it was "absolutely edifying".

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2024

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2024

They were labeled with edifying placards that said Traditional Kerala Umbrella and Traditional Bridal Dowry-box.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy