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An online audience can be as fickle as it is faithful, and what captures the most clicks doesn’t also always edify the human soul.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Finding the least taxing way to activate your inner circle could gratify — and edify — all involved, and restore a sense of control over your own well-being.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2022

Presumably most of the purchasers of these books are parents, schools and libraries seeking to edify the youth — though certainly many kids adore reading about history and horror.

From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2021

Yet Moreno-Garcia aims not just to edify but to thrill.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2020

Parson Friedel, a thoroughly good fellow, though not a particularly good preacher, goes on Sunday morning to church to edify his flock.

From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by James Parton

Ken Loach's film, written by Rona Munro and based on a true story, horrifies and edifies in equal measure.

From Time Magazine Archive

This is an album that edifies even as it enchants.

From Time Magazine Archive

If art no longer shocks, it seldom edifies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Your industry edifies me, and I am sure that you will eventually be a baronet and the President of the Royal College of Surgeons; and you shall relieve royal persons of their, vermiform appendix.

From The Magician by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

Your Lordship has, indeed, told me that, when the alcalde-mayor is what he should be, he better edifies and preaches than any minister of religion whatever.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 08 of 55 1591-1593 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson

Whatever the two justices’ modest deficiencies in literary criticism, our contemporary public life would be edified by not only their jurisprudence but also their graces.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 2020

But what makes the play especially tricky, and possibly infuriating to theatergoers seeking to be efficiently edified, is that Shawn doesn’t neatly sort out the subjective views of his characters.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2017

We’d been there for several hours by then, had consumed our blueberries and granola bars, were edified and overstimulated and thinking about making our way home after a while.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 22, 2017

Listening to Serial, This American Life, Radiolab, WTF with Marc Maron, or 99% Invisible, we expect to come out the other end edified and enriched, in complex ways.

From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2014

Parsons, his attention caught by the trumpet call, sat listening with a sort of gaping solemnity, a sort of edified boredom.

From "1984" by George Orwell

For Jane Fleischer Reid, granddaughter of Betty Boop co-creator Max Fleischer and creator of Fabulous Fleischer Cartoons Restored, working with Buermann on Boop’s birthday party was “delightful” and edifying.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

All that matters in this moment is one of life's most edifying trivialities: snooker.

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026

The interviews are inconsistent, and some are more edifying than others.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

Brooks insists on seeing all this as an edifying story of a nation’s rise, albeit with a few bumps in the road.

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2025

“I’ll sit over here with Nell, and if you come across any particularly edifying moral precepts you think would do me good, read them aloud.”

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson