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throw light on

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throw light on (third-person singular simple present throws light on, present participle throwing light on, simple past threw light on, past participle thrown light on)

  1. To make clear; to elucidate; to provide an explanation for (something puzzling or mysterious).
    • 1894, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough[1]:
      As the explanation, if correct, promised to throw light on some obscure features of primitive religion, I resolved to develop it fully, and, detaching it from my general work, to issue it as a separate study.








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