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edify

verb as in instruct

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There’s nothing here that the viewer can’t glean from the documentary, and in fact, the doc is a far more edifying and affecting work than Safdie’s stylish regurgitation.

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

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But it’s an edifying experience, hurtling forward with only the mighty light of intrepid wonder to guide us.

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It’s also a central pillar of the pair’s edifying new sitcom.

I was doing that job, less than part time, for only a brief period, while for the adults working in the dining hall, it was a more permanent and far less edifying condition.

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