throw light on
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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
The papers also throw light on the legal firms, financial institutions and accountants working in the sector and on the jurisdictions that adopt offshore tax rules to attract money.
From BBC • Nov. 5, 2017
The selection of the Cabinet will be considered chronologically so far as the Trumbull papers throw light on it.
From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by White, Horace
