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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

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

The best Christmas sermons do not edify good souls before haying-time.

From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul

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

If art no longer shocks, it seldom edifies.

From Time Magazine Archive

He beats the air with words and edifies only those who are present, but does nothing for the absent and for posterity.

From The Love of Books The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury by Ernest Chester Thomas

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

From The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

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

For Jane Fleischer Reid, granddaughter of Betty Boop co-creator Max Fleischer and creator of Fabulous Fleischer Cartoons Restored, working with Buermann on Boop’s birthday party was “delightful” and edifying.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

Witnessing the abrupt ending to a political career is never an edifying spectacle.

From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026

The machinery was imperfect, the politics were real, and those who lost were not always treated well—the history of what followed Nicaea is not uniformly edifying.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

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

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026

“I’ll sit over here with Nell, and if you come across any particularly edifying moral precepts you think would do me good, read them aloud.”

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson