edifying
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All that matters in this moment is one of life's most edifying trivialities: snooker.
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026
Few things are less edifying than a mob that has decided to rectify a great wrong in the name of justice and purity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
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
The power of absence and refusal is perhaps more edifying in literature — see “The Stranger,” “The Quiet Man,” the brick-wall calm of I-would-prefer-not-to Bartleby — than in real life.
From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2024
As a journalist, I found it edifying to experience things from the other side of the fence.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
Vocabulary lists containing edifying
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
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A Farewell To Arms
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Crime and Punishment
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