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illustrate

[il-uh-streyt, ih-luhs-treyt] / ˈɪl əˌstreɪt, ɪˈlʌs treɪt /




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Together, these incidents illustrate how the Winter Olympics have become a platform not just for athletic achievement, but also for public expressions of conscience.

From Salon

That helps to illustrate why there’s been a rotation out of software and into hardware plays this year.

From MarketWatch

The experiences of two others—Miller and Martin—may be more instructive because they illustrate how a Fed chair can disappoint a president even when inflation isn’t the reason.

From The Wall Street Journal

Those entities, later used for the merger, carried the name K2, an apparent homage to the Kardashev scale—a theoretical framework that illustrates a civilization’s advancement through energy usage, including from stars.

From The Wall Street Journal

The exceedingly small gap between hires and separations illustrates just how weak the labor market has gotten since last spring.

From MarketWatch