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Example Sentences

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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

That’s because stocks about which there is a lot of news attract more investor attention, which in turn tends to push up their prices — and thereby reduces their future returns.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 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

"Congratulations to the Nepali people for successfully conducting a historically peaceful election... thereby providing the country with a democratic and constitutional resolution," Karki said late Thursday after voting ended.

From Barron's • Mar. 6, 2026

I wasn’t smiling much that fall, but my handwriting didn’t improve a whit thereby.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson