edifying
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They prepare students to discern right from wrong, truth from lies—a process so edifying it can be, as Mr. Kessler advises, as “fun” and “addictive” as any tech.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025
But it’s an edifying experience, hurtling forward with only the mighty light of intrepid wonder to guide us.
From Salon • Jan. 25, 2025
Nik goes further and says it was "absolutely edifying".
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2024
The power of absence and refusal is perhaps more edifying in literature — see “The Stranger,” “The Quiet Man,” the brick-wall calm of I-would-prefer-not-to Bartleby — than in real life.
From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2024
“At the Villa Rossa. It was very edifying, baby. We all sang. Where have you been?”
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.