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
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he expected Germany to "throw light on all aspects" of the attack.
From BBC • Feb. 20, 2020
But the points of the speeches, so far as we can discern them, throw light on the speakers, more especially on the reckless, impetuous character of Pitt, even at this time.
From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose
