illustrate

Example Sentences

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The Census Bureau’s latest population estimates illustrate how housing supply supports—or stunts—growth.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

Ducournau wants to illustrate how fear itself can be a deadly contagion, a reality anyone who lived through those terrible times already knows too well.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Two deals announced this week illustrate the shift.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

Few studies illustrate that paradox more crisply than the latest State of Working India report by Azim Premji University.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

He had also set out to illustrate Archimedes’ principle in action, and as a consequence had discovered a further anomaly, that a weight of water could lift a weight greater than itself.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton