throw light on
Example Sentences
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"There's still meat on the bone," he says, adding that he is glad he helped throw light on the subject, even though his own case was not successful.
From BBC • Aug. 1, 2025
Investors awaited factory production data from the euro zone at 0800 GMT that could throw light on the pace of economic growth.
From Reuters • Aug. 1, 2022
“These manuscripts can throw light on part of Africa’s past.”
From New York Times • Jul. 12, 2022
Those books helped throw light on the so-called Salt Lake City scandal involving allegations of bribes used by the Salt Lake Organizing Committee to win the 2002 Winter Olympics.
From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2022
These facts throw light on the long standing of the housing question, the change of standard and the improvement effected.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various
