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throw light on





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Historians say Mr Levi's artefacts could also help throw light on the larger Jewish community in India.

From BBC • Jan. 26, 2024

She collaborated with the modern dancer Loie Fuller, making three colored-glass screens to throw light on Fuller as she danced.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2023

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

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

And yet the better understanding of these aspects may throw light on several points connected with primitive religion and the history of early civilisation, indeed over the whole range of what is called Völkerpsychologie.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich




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