instructive

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With each instructive and poetic chapter, she shows us how time used to be measured by birdsong and flower bud, the color of twilight and the wide wheel of stars.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

The response is instructive for what it pursued and what it avoided.

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026

It's instructive to see how comfortable the four of them are in each other's company and with the position they find themselves in.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2026

On her first day of the two months’ preliminary training, Briony’s humiliation in front of the class had been instructive.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan