indirect

Example Sentences

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Other indirect costs, related to the cost of fuel and packaging, tend to hit later.

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026

Hastings now has direct or indirect ownership of 21,163,516 Netflix common shares, or about 0.5% of the shares outstanding.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026

Though direct holdings in the asset class are typically small for European banks, indirect exposure via private credit providers mean that risks could be bigger than initial appearances, Schramm-Fuchs said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

However, those conclusions were based on instruments located far from the fault zone, meaning the observations were indirect.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026

A third principle is that indirect discourse is not always introduced with an expression like he said that or she thought that; sometimes it is implicit in the context.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker