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instructive

[in-struhk-tiv] / ɪnˈstrʌk tɪv /


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Instructive times for Seattle’s ownership group that must immediately contend with Wilson’s not-so covert desires to explore other franchises before his retirement.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 26, 2021

Instructive occasions and teachable moments abound in life.

From Washington Times • Nov. 8, 2017

Instructive for Strand, too, has been how that paralysis even manifests itself in judgments about the future of his play.

From Washington Post • May 7, 2015

A similar allegorical spirit is evident in a 19th-century playing board called British and Foreign Animals: A New Game, Moral, Instructive and Amusing.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2012

Instructive significance perhaps attaches to this in editing the works of one who quietly made so much of materials gathered by others.

From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Black, Ebenezer Charlton




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