instructive
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Their comments have been instructive; they aren’t looking to flood the market with oil.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
At Tottenham, the Amazon documentary All or Nothing captured something instructive.
From BBC • May 13, 2026
The response from his intended audience was instructive.
From Salon • May 11, 2026
His Christian realism provides the most instructive model we have for what a successful version of that approach looks like in practice.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
Especially instructive are cases in which a single wild plant species was variously selected for different purposes and thereby gave rise to quite different-looking crops.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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stru, struct (make, build)
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stru, struct (make, build)
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