Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an instructive manner; so as to afford instruction.
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- adverb In an
instructive manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in an informative manner
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Examples
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The most memorable pieces of junk on the walls of The Tune Inn are the taxidermist-created hindquarters of two deer, one of each gender, strategically and instructively placed over the door of the appropriate rest room in the back, opposite the booths.
Howard Fineman: The Tune Inn Is America Howard Fineman 2011
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The most memorable pieces of junk on the walls of The Tune Inn are the taxidermist-created hindquarters of two deer, one of each gender, strategically and instructively placed over the door of the appropriate rest room in the back, opposite the booths.
Howard Fineman: The Tune Inn Is America Howard Fineman 2011
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An instructively contrasting nutcase theory is the notion that George W. Bush planned or deliberately allowed the 9/11 attacks.
L, t U & E 2010
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The most memorable pieces of junk on the walls of The Tune Inn are the taxidermist-created hindquarters of two deer, one of each gender, strategically and instructively placed over the door of the appropriate rest room in the back, opposite the booths.
Howard Fineman: The Tune Inn Is America Howard Fineman 2011
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The most memorable pieces of junk on the walls of The Tune Inn are the taxidermist-created hindquarters of two deer, one of each gender, strategically and instructively placed over the door of the appropriate rest room in the back, opposite the booths.
Howard Fineman: The Tune Inn Is America Howard Fineman 2011
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Read the instructions and instructively you will be instructed with the right instructions.
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Since the 1980s, she has made good use of her access to the foremost thinkers in the AI world, and she has devised experiments for observing how people of all ages - most instructively children and the elderly - interact with and relate to machines that in some ways mimic how humans or animals act, think and talk.
Sherry Turkle's meditation on technology, "Alone Together" Jane Smiley 2011
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Williams sold himself as a man who backed and championed the civil rights struggles of the past and -- his sworn mission was to accurately and instructively chronicle that struggle.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: NPR Should Have Booted Williams for His Fraudulent Liberalism Earl Ofari Hutchinson 2010
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In a parting address to his White House staff on Dec. 13, 1988, Reagan touched all the conservative hot buttons but placed instructively narrow brackets on his own administration's contributions, saying: " As a first step , we said that the way to restore vitality to the economy was to cut marginal tax rates and cut needless regulations."
Picking Up Obama's Gauntlet on Taxes Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2012
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The most memorable pieces of junk on the walls of The Tune Inn are the taxidermist-created hindquarters of two deer, one of each gender, strategically and instructively placed over the door of the appropriate rest room in the back, opposite the booths.
Howard Fineman: The Tune Inn Is America Howard Fineman 2011
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