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Synonyms for illuminating

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for illuminating

tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance

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Upon closing, American Illuminating will soon begin supplying power to PRHL's customers as well as recruit additional resellers of deregulated power and provide them with proprietary sales tool, the Energy Services Portal (ESP), which is a web-based platform that will streamline sales efforts, enforce compliance and increase productivity.
No attempt is made to connect these sections into a seamless narrative and so the book has a conversational quality and is, as the first author makes clear in the foreword "a pot-pourri of events, and a reflection on people and developments that shaped the British lighting profession." Though larger issues are often described, the focus remains the Illuminating Engineering Society and the people who formed it, served it, promoted it, and changed it.
The Lumen Awards, sponsored by the IESNY, are part of the International Illumination Design Awards (IIDA) program of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA).
In December, United Illuminating agreed to temporarily cease killing monk parakeets, although the company said it would still remove nests from its lines.
Literary perspectives on adoption history have been explored recently in Claudia Nelson's illuminating book, Little Strangers (2003) and Marianne Novy's edited collection, Imagining Adoption (2001).
As I progressed I found the chapters increasingly original and illuminating. Chapter titles do not adequately represent the richness of this experience.
Simply because careers had come so easily for me (nine years with the Air Force and nine [in corporate America]), I found your article illuminating and disheartening--illuminating because there is hope, and disheartening because by obtaining that graduate degree, I automatically assumed it would be the key to more fulfilling responsibilities, or at least fawning deference.
All of these essays are clear, well documented, and illuminating. I myself found the essay "On Trusting an Unpredictable God: A Hermeneutical Meditation of Romans 1-11" one of the most illuminating in the book.
With sunlight once again illuminating the planet's northern face, astronomers are taking their first peek at a region on Uranus that they have never before seen with modern detectors.
This colourful and imaginative scheme for illuminating a water tower in Glasgow transforms a utilitarian structure and enlivens the public realm.
Catholic saints are persons in whose lives the grace of God shines with a special brilliance, so perhaps it's particularly fitting that their images should be in the stained glass windows illuminating the interiors of churches.