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It is a moving illustration of how a space can hold and contain — feel safe — while also holding an open sense of possibility.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
For illustration, $1,900 is currently the average individual monthly Social Security payment.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026
But they are nonetheless an illustration of how Iran has been able to move money internationally for years despite Western sanctions aimed at choking off the regime’s ability to do so.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
The Belgians' 4-2 triumph in Cardiff was the starkest illustration.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026
His father had provided an illustration of the Ptolemaic cosmos in which the outermost sphere was labelled ‘Here the learned do appoint the habitacle of God and the Elect.’
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Vocabulary of the Common Core
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Florida EOC Biology 1
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