instructive

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For Goldhaber, the response to “Pipeline” became instructive for his work becoming less prescriptive.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026

The body language at the end was instructive; Celtic sprightly, Rangers stunned.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026

To get a better feel for Walmart, though, a single quarter’s results aren’t that instructive.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

An instructive Salon piece from a decade ago reveals the film’s designer dressed him to be “a young girl’s dream of a pop star.”

From Salon • Jan. 24, 2026

It is instructive to look at a chart of the crime rate in New York City from, say, the mid- 1960s to the late 1990s.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell