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instructive

adjective as in informative

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It’s very instructive, the response to that catch.

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But there is also hope this episode has been instructive.

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This is shrewd on both the merits and politics, and it’s instructive that Democrats scuttled a procedural vote 50-44.

His experience at Exelon was instructive in how construction delays and cost overruns can push power companies into debt spirals.

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Apart from some surveillance, tailing suspects, one fatal encounter and an occasional chase, there’s little in the way of capital-A Action, mostly just a lot of talk — inquisitive, instructive, threatening, discursive, domestic or speechifying.

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