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
She explains, “I did not wish to make light of the living, but rather to throw light on it, and shadow too.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2021
When he had relieved his mind he asked if there was anyone who could throw light on the matter, and old Brooks was shoved to the front.
From The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904 by Various