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But that’s partly why he’s there: to expand and edify their thinking, which he attempts to do gently and judiciously.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2023

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

One story, The Millionaire, describes a disgraced man who undergoes ritual humiliation to edify people who want to witness “the version of the world you believe in”.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 14, 2020

Nothing that could interest, edify, or amuse was thought too trivial to be recorded, if it would tend to strengthen the bonds of family affection.

From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Edward B. Hall

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

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learnèd lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always listening to himself appears.

From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 by George Gilfillan

This is that which so often edifies me in Christian writers and speakers, when I ever so much disbelieve the letter of their sentences.

From Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed by Francis William Newman

So I think he’s worked everywhere he could at as high a level as he could, and came back to run the Impossible Mission Force a great deal more edified.

From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2023

While we were edified, amused, enraged and reassured by what we told ourselves was the story of Afghanistan, an entirely different tale was unspooling outside the dominant narrative.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 2021

For over thirty years, Mr. Plaschke’s stories have edified the biggest stars in the Los Angeles sports world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2020

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

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

Witnessing the abrupt ending to a political career is never an edifying spectacle.

From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

Nik goes further and says it was "absolutely edifying".

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2024

As a journalist, I found it edifying to experience things from the other side of the fence.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer