instructive
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Inviting the client to weigh the costs and benefits of risk-taking can also prove instructive.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
There’s something instructive about the way Mr. Vernon’s presence is so difficult to discern.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Haney moved for a mistrial, saying that “forcing continued deliberations through some instructive method … it has the potential to be coercive.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Those moves are instructive given the quickening inflation environment that has gripped markets since the U.S. war with Iran stoked global crude prices to the highest levels in four years.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
I have wondered, incidentally: does Our Father have his Bibles so entirely in mind that he can select an instructive verse and calculate backward to the one-hundredth previous?
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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stru, struct (make, build)
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