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thereby | American Dictionary

thereby
adverb[ not gradable ]
us/ˌðeərˈbaɪ/
because of this; as a result of this action:
They had failed to agree to a settlement, thereby throwing 250 people out of work.

Examples of thereby

thereby
He can of course obtain thereby a verbal coincidence with what the scholastics held, but he needs to prove that he can obtain anything more.
Logically, a canon cannot represent every group (and thereby fulfil the demands of multiculturalism) and still be a canon.
They thereby tend to increase anxiety instead of allaying it.
To discourage innovation and enquiry into the unknown is detrimental to discovery of new truths, and thereby harmful to humankind.
In all these and similar ways a government can exercise power and control over people without attempting thereby to exercise authority over them.
Thereby the notion of an actor with a collective project being in a position to affect the system receded.
We therefore designed some potential drug by grouping several biophores into a single molecule, thereby creating a single molecule cocktail of drug activity.
We thereby maximise our chance of demonstrating what we are looking for.
If so, natural law is again exposed as consistent with any possible content of positive law and it thereby loses its critical function.
The learner will thereby gain a much greater understanding of the patient.
Consequently, they might remove the base, thereby removing the reason for a nuclear attack.
Characters congregate in the family drawing-room coming from far-off places, thereby complicating the plot that is developing in the perceived space.
Hopes that knowledge of biological mechanisms underlying disorders may lead to genetic engineering and thereby to amelioration seem to be remote.
Each room of the maisonette and garden flats thereby becomes 600mm deeper, an increase in area per flat of 12 per cent.
Each chapter is essentially a selfcontained unit that can be read independently of the others, thereby providing a good basis for seminar discussions.
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