adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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She tried loosening and retying the robe to be more revealing .
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It is analytically more revealing and significant to identify actors by the roles they play, for example politicians and officials.
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The picture can be made more revealing and informative in various ways.
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A more revealing statistic is the percentage of women selected to fight council seats for Labour: 22.
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The most revealing numbers are the net income.
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The most revealing example of this type, however, is supplied by Papinian.
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Young as she was, these might be considered the most revealing political acts of her life.
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The most revealing anecdote that I can tell you about that is from Coventry.
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But speech is one of the most revealing aspects of a person.
■ NOUN
insight
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Stand by for a revealing insight into your childhood or upbringing.
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Hence the helpful and revealing insights of the staff into his cash card habits.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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revealing swimsuits
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His second book on Mitterrand is filled with revealing anecdotes and interviews.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An improper and dominant motive would have to be shown for revealing matters which would normally be in the public interest.
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As he wrote in a revealing letter dated 20 September 1963: To go there is to destroy the magic.
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Figures for the proportion of the total population in the labour force are quite revealing .
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I found this account sad but also rather revealing .
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More revealing than their obvious differences are those points of overlap between the materialist and the psychoanalytic accounts.
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The distribution of problems is also revealing .
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The most revealing numbers are the net income.