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The phrase "be enlightened by" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when encouraging someone to gain knowledge or insight from a particular source or experience.
Example: "I hope you will be enlightened by the information presented in this seminar."
Alternatives: "gain insight from" or "receive knowledge from".
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"People will be enlightened by it".
This year's line-up 'offers plenty for kids and adults to be enlightened by'.
"And schoolchildren aren't likely to be enlightened by looking at a list of names carved in stone.
They will be enlightened by new school "report cards" that set out matters academic (exam and inspection results), social (sport and healthy eating) and sundry ("partnership working" with other schools), both separately and in an overall grade.
No, us either, but rather than indulge each other in our mutual ignorance, let us be enlightened by The Sun, who claim that the Venezuelan 'wonderkid' is being chased by Tottenham Hotspur.
Where'd you find that?" (Rove disputes this account, saying that he wrote an elementary-school paper on dialectical materialism and so did not have to be enlightened by Edgeworth).
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We are enlightened by this.
But I am enlightened by the Exodus portion.
My Thursday mornings are enlightened by his eclectic and informative In Our Time Radio 4 programmes.
But in fact, far from being a brute, Stanley was enlightened by the standards of his day.
Ms. Fleming was enlightened by Mr. Conticini, a man for whom both salt and carrots belong in desserts.
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