instructive

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With each instructive and poetic chapter, she shows us how time used to be measured by birdsong and flower bud, the color of twilight and the wide wheel of stars.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

The response is instructive for what it pursued and what it avoided.

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026

For Goldhaber, the response to “Pipeline” became instructive for his work becoming less prescriptive.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026

The body language at the end was instructive; Celtic sprightly, Rangers stunned.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026

In several instructive cases doctors or veterinarians have actually been able to observe microbes evolving those new ways.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond