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The word "illustrative" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to describe something that serves as an example, to clarify or explain a concept, or to confirm and support a statement. For example: The graph was highly illustrative, clearly demonstrating the effects of the new policies.
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illustrative
adjective
Demonstrative, exemplative, showing an example or demonstrating.
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Her designs are digitally edited, but begin with a series of hand-drawn or painted images to accompany research photographs taken on her phone – a blending of techniques that gives her work its appealing, illustrative feel.
"Rijkaard launches the spit from here, now stop it there," he observed, before getting to work with his magic pen and charting the trajectory of the offending gully with an illustrative squiggle.
Tapestries made in the 15th, 16th and early 17th centuries were lush, intricately woven, illustrative panels created by teams of highly skilled workers using threads of many colours, highlighted with silks wrapped in silver or gold.
How can you teach basic arithmetic without illustrative piles of coins or beans?
The fact that a cow can share a busy motorway with cars and motorbikes is illustrative that change does not disregard the old, but instead finds a way to adapt and accommodate.
Its supporters naturally view Mr Adams's arrest as a politically motivated effort to prevent this.It is more obviously illustrative of a sore lack of agreement on dealing with the crimes and victims of the Troubles, which is one of the peace process's main failings.
For a sense of how much higher, The Economist took figures on London-based banks' 2010 remuneration from a new paper by Brian Bell and John Van Reenen of the London School of Economics, and worked out how far base pay would need to have risen that year for risk-taking staff to have taken home the same total pay with a 1 1 cap in place (see chart).These numbers are only illustrative.
Yet the notion of requesting foreign governments to pay the expenses of British diplomats might seem, like this belated, hesitant and meagre intervention, to be chiefly illustrative of a steep decline in British power.
But to take a really illustrative point, the way the Republican plan would deal with people who are too sick to get insurance at any affordable price is to put them into high-risk pools.
In Ricardo's illustrative model, the answers were clear: Portugal, blessed with a fine climate, should cultivate wine; England, blessed with capitalists, should manufacture cloth.
However, he then admits that foreigners do come to train the peshmergas, the Kurds' hardened guerrilla fighters, and it is possible that there might have been an Israeli or two among them.This possible Israeli presence in Kurdistan is illustrative of just how different the Kurds' attitude to Israel is from the rest of the Middle East.
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