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How can Fast Company continue to spark valuable, instructive, and important conversations among the members of this rapidly growing community?— Conversation Agent
They will almost always find that the coverage produced by citizen journalists (they'll almost always mention the citizen journalists) was both valiant and instructive, and that the news-sharing platform used by said citjos, be it a blog or a podcast or, most recently, a Twitter feed, offers enticing answers to the question of Where Journalism Will Go from Here.— CJR
The UK's experience in this regard could be instructive, as it has introduced a range of carbon taxes and levies, including on air travel.— The Times of India
Examining the past is instructive, and I find it reassuring to know that society did not fall apart during the Depression.— Starbulletin Headlines
Your friendship, with which for many years you honoured me, was a friendship dearest to my soul: your conversation and your correspondence were at once highly entertaining and instructive--with what pleasure did I use to break up the seal!— The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham

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