instructive

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It’s that instructive line of dialogue, which doubles as the film’s poster tagline and thus asks the same of its audience, that reveals the movie’s biggest intention.

From Salon

The most recent session of the Alaska Legislature proved instructive.

From Los Angeles Times

Mr. DeSantis’s spokesman, Bryan Griffin, wrote in an email that comments the governor made on a recent policy call “should be instructive to your reporting.”

From New York Times

That episode, "Spock Amok," is an instructive prerequisite to the actions Spock undertakes in the second season premiere of "Strange New Worlds," "The Broken Circle."

From Salon

Those capital letters are as instructive as they are intentional, one of the many ways the novel teaches us how it means to be read.

From Los Angeles Times