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illustrate

[il-uh-strayt, ih-luhs-trayt] / ˈɪl əˌstreɪt, ɪˈlʌs treɪt /




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And here’s where I counter that a movie about how algorithms destroy humanity has to have some credible humans in it, if only to illustrate its own point.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

The findings illustrate the reckless way in which the market for peptides is developing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Here’s what complicates the monster story, and what Hollywood has failed to illustrate in this movie: I also found a young man failed by nearly every system around him.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

Recent advances by IBM, IonQ, Nvidia, and others illustrate the new promise of the complex technology.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

To illustrate nature’s musical laws we can use a piece of pipe or tubing.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

The agreement illustrates a historical pattern: The United States no longer needs to annex land to achieve its strategic objectives abroad.

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026

Nevertheless, it illustrates how future rehabilitation systems might provide personalized guidance without requiring a room full of cameras and laboratory equipment.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

The unlikely alliance illustrates the increasingly desperate scramble for “compute,” the lifeblood of the AI boom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Secondary school teacher Marine Monins, who joined the demonstrations in Lille, shows us a laminated timetable which she says illustrates the problem.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

The Avianca accident so perfectly illustrates the characteristics of the “modern” plane crash that it is studied in flight schools.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

First published in 1926, Milne's story, illustrated by Ernest Howard Shepard, followed the tales of Christopher Robin and his friends, including Piglet, Tigger and Eeyore.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

By 1943 servicemen could receive illustrated magazines, such as Newsweek and Time, in reduced-size formats.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

There’s a method to all this madness, and it’s best illustrated by the fact that Vance is the one leading the charge.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

Ah Sing illustrated its tortured central character, Aerius, as a muscled romance book cover star — with a twist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

They could weave, into the lovely stuffs they made, forms so lifelike anyone could see what tale they illustrated.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Dalio, the founder of hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, has warned for years of the dangers of surging government debt, illustrating the potential consequences in a series of books including his latest, “How Countries Go Broke.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

In recent years, Unite Here Local 11 has filed numerous complaints over the Inglewood facility, claiming various wage and health issues, illustrating a bitter battle over movement at the bargaining table.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Gakpo ranks in the 78th percentile for link-up play, the 75th for pass progression and the 67th for creative threat, illustrating his comfort combining in tight spaces and contributing to build-up play.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

That’s more than 3% of the country’s adult population, illustrating the feverish extent of stock market speculation and the danger of leverage.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026

Many more vignettes illustrating this and other simple logical errors might be cited, but the point is clear enough: both innumeracy and defective logic provide a fertile soil for the growth of pseudoscience.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos




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