- past tense form of illustrate.
- past participle of illustrate.
illustrated
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In her dissenting opinion, Justice Elena Kagan illustrated the consequences of eliminating these limits with the example of a single check from one individual for $551,300.
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026
The author uses that rich archive for the book’s lavishly illustrated second half, which explores the ways other artists have repurposed the painting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
The menus would be illustrated by hand, which sounds charming until you’ve spent an entire afternoon trying to get the shading right on a watercolor artichoke.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
“The Boys” co-creator Darick Robertson illustrated the grinning gargoyle on its label.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
A very simple numerical principle that’s sometimes of use in accounting for the certainty of a particular kind of coincidence is illustrated by the mailman who has twenty-one letters to distribute among twenty mailboxes.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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