illustrate
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Sometimes it is the details that best illustrate the broader canvas.
From BBC • May 8, 2026
They cite data from the public markets to illustrate their point.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 28, 2026
More recent, though less comprehensive, data illustrate a spring homebuying season off to an uneven start as variations in demand and supply drive prices in different directions.
From Barron's • Apr. 25, 2026
In “How Black Music Took Over the World,” Mr. Gibbs uses clocklike diagrams to illustrate “many of the aspects of Black music that are hard to notice, or get hidden, using Western notation.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
To illustrate these problems, consider the following typical example of an often quoted pre-Clovis claim.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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