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thereby

[thair-bahy, thair-bahy] / ˌðɛərˈbaɪ, ˈðɛərˌbaɪ /
ADVERB
by that
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They are announced one by one, starting from the bottom of the scoreboard -- thereby stretching out the suspense until the very end.

From Barron's • May 16, 2026

For Mr. Feiler, these “entrepreneurs of meaning” have done what he finds “unfathomable”: take a “niche, all-but-dead custom” and turn it into “a thriving symbol,” thereby reclaiming “outdated rituals for contemporary audiences.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

These shopping tactics help consumers reduce what they pay, thereby lowering the inflation rate.

From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026

If a contest is delayed until the autumn, it gives him more time to find a parliamentary constituency he can stand in and, providing he wins, thereby make his return to Westminster.

From BBC • May 11, 2026

But Lysenko convinced himself and his Soviet bosses that he had “retrained” the crops through exposure and conditioning alone and thereby altered their inherent characteristics.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee



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