'an illuminating example' is an acceptable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to introduce an example that provides insight, clarity, or understanding of a particular concept, issue, or idea. For example: "The decision to pursue a career in the arts can be daunting, but Jerry's success story is an illuminating example of how determination can lead to great accomplishment."
In the absence of checks and balances on central power, this proved disastrous.Ethiopia provides an illuminating example.
Judge Rovner's opinion makes an illuminating example of that trend.
Michael Holroyd, in his biography of George Bernard Shaw, gives an illuminating example of myopic hostility to Russia by the right even when we desperately needed allies.
Again, Mel Slater's blog provides an illuminating example of body-swapping in action: in an experiment conducted as part of the TRAVERSE project exploring the effects of virtual reality, Slater and his team found that embodying an avatar of a different race can come to significantly reduce racial bias.
Kao provides an illuminating example of the kind.
Individual variations in the alleles of DRD4 provide an illuminating example (Ebstein, 2006).
Control of overload cascading failures in power grids is another illuminating example.
The expatriate writer and editor Elliot Paul, in his book "Understanding the French" (1954), offers an illuminating, if rather extreme, example of what happens to historical accounts that don't add up: they get rewritten so that they do.
Organs-on-a-chip have already proven to be a more effective tool than mice in some cases: Ingber's lung-on-a-chip, for example, illuminated a previously unknown connection between the human immune system and pulmonary edema, while another group from the University of California, Irvine, replicated human vasculature for insights into tumor metastasis and environmental-chemical toxicity.
This case study illuminates an example where the military used ecology and conservation as a covert tool to maintain control over resources.
Additional file 1: Figure S1 illuminated an example of consensus map construction from raw DNA molecules.
