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Knowing your track record, you write a column predicting the Dodgers will not win the World Series this year, thereby ensuring that they will, in fact, win the World Series this year.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2026

The iPhone maker aims to balance out its remaining emissions through nature-based removals projects, thereby achieving climate neutrality in its operation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

In response, Nvidia has developed weaker versions of its chips to meet export-control requirements, thereby allowing it to sell to Chinese customers.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 21, 2026

"This information will prevent the overtreatment of low-risk patients, thereby limiting side effects and unnecessary costs, while intensifying the monitoring and treatment of those at high risk," says Ariel Ruiz i Altaba.

From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 2026

Provided that each victim thereby infects on the average more than one new victim, the bacterium will spread, even though the first host happens to die.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond