as a means

I don’t know why people bought into the idea that someone like Musk was going to be the guardrail against censorship, when in fact he is invoking the concept of free speech as a means of justifying censorship.

Netflix is moving into live events that can capture mass audiences as a means to attract advertisers.

In a 2021 essay, she cited Trump’s “intensive efforts to chip away at the apolitical nature of the American military” as a means of using the armed forces to help him try to stay in power after losing the 2020 election.

Flour is already fortified with calcium, niacin, thiamine and iron as a means of improving public health.

But one thing seems unlikely to change: his dislike of patient, principled diplomacy as a means to peace and his preference for transactional politics and populist gestures.