instructive
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An instructive Salon piece from a decade ago reveals the film’s designer dressed him to be “a young girl’s dream of a pop star.”
From Salon
As geopolitical tensions ratchet ever higher, it may be instructive to look at just how exposed U.S. markets are to foreign investors.
From MarketWatch
It’s a good definition for what novelists should do, but it’s hardly instructive.
“I don’t regard that as accidental and I do think it is instructive,” Redman says.
From Barron's
His valor is worth remembering on its merits, and the history is instructive about the threats now facing the U.S.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
