illuminate
Example Sentences
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It’s a text that can be quite illuminating.
From Los Angeles Times
Mr. Cannadine, a distinguished British historian, does not go in for color or fun or illuminating anecdotes.
The first firework illuminated the sky, leaving a waterfall of spangled light.
From Literature
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I could see the path of light he had talked about, illuminated from within and stretching from one end of the sky to the other.
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Gates has assembled a stimulating, illuminating, maddening, saddening, but often inspiring, story of their relations with the world and one another.
From Los Angeles Times
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