as in interpretative
serving to explain
an edition of Shakespeare's plays with many interpretive footnotes that students should find very helpful
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illustrative
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Here's a little demonstration, purely for illustrative purposes, to give a better sense.—
Stephen Miller,
Bluesky Social,
5 June 2025 -
This illustrative image from October 5, 2021, shows a magnetic resonance imaging machine at Neurospin in Gif-sur-Yvette, southwest of Paris.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 July 2025
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“Interpretive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interpretive. Accessed 14 Aug. 2025.
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