The phrase "actually illustrate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to emphasize that something provides a clear example or representation of a concept or idea.
Example: "The data presented in the report actually illustrate the trends we have been observing over the past year."
Alternatives: "clearly demonstrate" or "effectively show".
Both your correspondents' replies (Letters, 6 December) to the article by David Baddiel actually illustrate his point.
Morissette also took a jab at herself with the line: "It's singing ironic but there are no ironies", addressing a long-standing gripe that the original song does not actually illustrate ironic situations.
For this week's emotions actually illustrate one of the monarchy's greatest strengths.This is that it focuses attention on human beings rather than on the more abstract world of political institutions or documents.
And no, we couldn't actually illustrate this story with an anus, now could we?
For the first time in recent memory Twitter has used a graphic to actually illustrate what it sees as the acceptable and not so acceptable ways to use its API.
By comparison, Coates' tome, while alluding to both himself and the world, does not actually illustrate either of these.
So we have a lovely illustrated life that never actually illustrates the subject.
Ms. Ellis, 36, who has contributed to The New York Times, actually illustrated a Lemony Snicket book, "The Composer Is Dead".
But the evolution of Pepe the Frog actually illustrates a key aspect of hate symbols: many such images do not actually begin as hate symbols.
"Bold Fresh Earth" The scientist Carl Sagan actually illustrated the lyrics of "Bold Fresh Earth" — a song collaboration between Bill Nye and a Louis Armstrong hologram — to create this picture book.
Bauböck (2007) further argues that the diffusion of external voting actually illustrates the transformations of the concept of citizenship in the age of globalization.
