by means of
Example Sentences
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The obscure law bans a person from soliciting or receiving nonpublic information from a public servant by means of their office or employment with the intent to obtain a benefit.
From Slate • Mar. 26, 2026
This is the first time squads in the Hundred have been assembled by means of an auction.
From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026
He argued with righteous tenacity that Southerners could be convinced to relinquish their slaves by means of patient “moral suasion.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2025
It’s a lovely image: Kirk as a modern-day Socrates, wandering the agora of America’s universities seeking to find truth by means of rhetorical contest.
From Salon • Sep. 17, 2025
Apart from large-scale cave art, the people of the Upper Paleolithic also produced small, hand-sized drawings and carvings in bone, horn, or stone, skillfully cut by means of flint tools.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
