a window into/on
idiom
: something that makes it possible to see or understand something clearly
This knowledge opens a window into your opponent's mind.
The book gives the reader a window on war.
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Holt’s satire is a window into the end of the Tory years.
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Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2024
A lot of people don’t have a window into the world that was Ohio in the era of LeBron James as a high schooler.
—Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2024
As the first Korean cooking competition on Netflix, Culinary Class Wars promises to captivate an international audience, offering not only a window into Korea’s rich food culture but a universal narrative about how food shapes—and is shaped by—social structures.
—Stephanie Gravalese, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
Friedan’s charmingly self-aware prose provides a window into how feminist ideas were translated into an agenda—and a peek into the mind of one of America’s most effective, if occasionally self-defeating, reformers.
—Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2024
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Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2024
A lot of people don’t have a window into the world that was Ohio in the era of LeBron James as a high schooler.
—Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2024
As the first Korean cooking competition on Netflix, Culinary Class Wars promises to captivate an international audience, offering not only a window into Korea’s rich food culture but a universal narrative about how food shapes—and is shaped by—social structures.
—Stephanie Gravalese, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
Friedan’s charmingly self-aware prose provides a window into how feminist ideas were translated into an agenda—and a peek into the mind of one of America’s most effective, if occasionally self-defeating, reformers.
—Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2024
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“A window into/on.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/a%20window%20into%2Fon. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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