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throw light on





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"There's still meat on the bone," he says, adding that he is glad he helped throw light on the subject, even though his own case was not successful.

From BBC • Aug. 1, 2025

Investors awaited factory production data from the euro zone at 0800 GMT that could throw light on the pace of economic growth.

From Reuters • Aug. 1, 2022

“These manuscripts can throw light on part of Africa’s past.”

From New York Times • Jul. 12, 2022

Those books helped throw light on the so-called Salt Lake City scandal involving allegations of bribes used by the Salt Lake Organizing Committee to win the 2002 Winter Olympics.

From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2022

But now, turning from what is in the future, to what is in the past, let us try to collect those indications which throw light on the condition of things preceding feudal law and organisation.

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul




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