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illustrate

[il-uh-streyt, ih-luhs-treyt] / ˈɪl əˌstreɪt, ɪˈlʌs treɪt /




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Cylinders, donuts, Mobius strips, and Klein bottles can all illustrate how spaces with locally flat geometry can have very different overall structures.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

But the SEC’s warnings illustrate why the identity of the person standing onstage can matter so much.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

To illustrate this point, we can compare the yields of two investment-grade bond indexes.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

For an artist it begs for interpretation — and I just have to illustrate it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

We can illustrate it by looking at some examples together; the demonstration will help us gain courage to try the same analysis the next time we enter a museum.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

"This discovery illustrates why fieldwork remains indispensable to understanding life's history," said the study's lead author Andres Giallombardo, who found the specimen as a graduate student on a Museum-sponsored expedition in 2004.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

But the comparison illustrates the opportunity cost of tying up your money in a home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

The right map above illustrates that shift, with lighter reds and blues showing much smaller rates of change during that decade.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

A study by economists at Tufts University on the effect that homeownership has on the wealth trajectory of low-income households illustrates the importance of timing.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

The portrait of Pacioli illustrates the way in which, once perspective had been discovered, mathematics and art went hand in hand.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

It could quickly reverse, as illustrated earlier in the summer when assumptions about a deescalation in the US Iran conflict led to sharp falls in energy prices and yields.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Ah Sing illustrated its tortured central character, Aerius, as a muscled romance book cover star — with a twist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Recent hacks by models from OpenAI and Anthropic, some operating in collaborative swarms of agents, have illustrated how AI systems can adopt nefarious goals and try to conceal them from humans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

The market timers’ unseemly rush for the exits is illustrated in the accompanying chart of the average recommended equity exposure among a subset of short-term market timers who focus on the Nasdaq stock market.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

Mom had written and illustrated the Harriet Honeywell books, a chapter book series, for the past four years.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake

Ryanair on Wednesday reduced its winter capacity to mitigate its exposure to unhedged jet fuel prices of $140 per barrel, illustrating a major economic impact of the energy crisis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

The average tenure of a top-flight boss now stands at about 20 months, illustrating just how fleeting life in one of football's most demanding jobs can now be.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

That’s more than 3% of the country’s adult population, illustrating the feverish extent of stock market speculation and the danger of leverage.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026

Most of these well-performing vehicles are larger products, illustrating the continued appeal of such vehicles in the United States.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

A group of tourists with cameras around their necks huddled by the counter, some sampling stuffed clams, others pointing to a large chart illustrating fifty different varieties of North Atlantic fish.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri




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