"shine light on" meaning in English

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        {
          "ref": "2016 February 10, confessionsofabooklover, “Mind Your Head by Juno Dawson – review”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 2024-05-07",
          "text": "Blue Monday may have been and gone for this year, and even though it was created by a travel agency it does shine light on mental illness, something that we all know is common but aren’t too willing to accept the fact either.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 December 28, Gilien Silsby, “When a person is committed against their will: A legal and mental health labyrinth”, in USC Today, archived from the original on 2024-05-07",
          "text": "Saks, recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship “genius grant” and founder of USC’s Saks Institute for Mental Health Law, Policy and Ethics, has used her influence and compelling testimony to shine light on the subject in Los Angeles and nationally.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, H.R. 5175, the DISCLOSE Act, Democracy is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections: Hearing Before the Committee on House Administration, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, Second Session, Held in Washington, DC, May 6, 2010, United States Government Publishing Office, page 3",
          "text": "And being men of their word, they did not. And so the idea that we are here in a real effort to shine the light on the polit- ical process is overwhelmed by the fact that there was a refusal to shine light on the legislative process.",
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        "Synonym of shine a light on"
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        "(figurative) Synonym of shine a light on"
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  "word": "shine light on"
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    {
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          "ref": "2016 February 10, confessionsofabooklover, “Mind Your Head by Juno Dawson – review”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 2024-05-07",
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          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "2017 December 28, Gilien Silsby, “When a person is committed against their will: A legal and mental health labyrinth”, in USC Today, archived from the original on 2024-05-07",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, H.R. 5175, the DISCLOSE Act, Democracy is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections: Hearing Before the Committee on House Administration, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, Second Session, Held in Washington, DC, May 6, 2010, United States Government Publishing Office, page 3",
          "text": "And being men of their word, they did not. And so the idea that we are here in a real effort to shine the light on the polit- ical process is overwhelmed by the fact that there was a refusal to shine light on the legislative process.",
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