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shed light on
Also, throw light on. Clarify or explain, as in I was hoping the professor would shed light on how he arrived at his theory, or Can anyone throw some light on where these plants came from? Originally, from about 1200, these expressions were used literally, in the sense of “illuminate,” but they soon were used figuratively as well.
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The Texas Senate declined to release other documents that could have shed light on how Musk’s companies interacted with elected officials.
Researchers say the discovery sheds light on what became of the Americas' oldest civilisation, the Caral.
It’s a point he doubled down on in an interview on Fox News: “They should be prosecuted,” he said, referring to Democrats and anyone else who might have shed light on his imperfect air strikes.
The discovery promises to shed light on the evolutionary history that saw early small dinosaurs become very large and "bizarre" animals, according to Professor Paul Barrett, a palaeontologist at the museum.
That research has shed light on existential threats facing the big cats eking out an existence in an increasingly urbanized landscape.
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