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illustrate

[il-uh-strayt, ih-luhs-trayt] / ˈɪl əˌstreɪt, ɪˈlʌs treɪt /




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He used the early months of the pandemic to illustrate his point about confidence and timing.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026

The results illustrate an important challenge in the search for planets beyond our solar system.

From Science Daily ● 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

“You know, if I wanted someone to illustrate for me all the ways that this could go wrong, I’d just tell my parents.”

From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway

He says the public confrontation with senior political figures illustrates how the succession debate was spilling beyond the army and into the ruling party.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026

While Adams ultimately turned his financial situation around, his experience illustrates an often invisible trap that awaits many service members when they step out of uniform.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026

One simulation illustrates just how dramatic the difference could be.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026

To me, that just illustrates how much more complex a big auto CMO’s job is now.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

The history of writing illustrates strikingly the similar ways in which geography and ecology influenced the spread of human inventions.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

The daunting challenge faced by the Fed was illustrated by the latest snapshot on inflation in October.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026

Magnetic fields are often illustrated using curved lines, such as the patterns formed by iron filings around a magnet or the enormous magnetic loops extending above the Sun's surface.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026

In her dissenting opinion, Justice Elena Kagan illustrated the consequences of eliminating these limits with the example of a single check from one individual for $551,300.

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026

The author uses that rich archive for the book’s lavishly illustrated second half, which explores the ways other artists have repurposed the painting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

The week after, he brought along an illustrated copy of the Mahabharata, the Hindu epic.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

A wave of apparent cyberattacks hit supermarket freezers in several European countries this week, spurring investigations and illustrating how even mundane physical infrastructure is vulnerable to hackers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

The team cited charts illustrating that temperature anomalies lead world food prices by about 12 months.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

In 2003, non-dairy creamer had contributed just 7.71 calories per day, illustrating how dramatically its role in Americans' coffee consumption had changed.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

That sentiment cropped up repeatedly in interviews, too: Early guests seemed to believe the museum’s brochure, which notes that the galleries are about the “narrative art” of illustrating stories.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Early on, she settled on heart attacks— events with a known cause and a quick dramatic arc—as a way of illustrating how illness plays out differently in different classes.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times


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