in virtue of
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Well, you can think about how much better is the world in virtue of having that particular beautiful creature.
From Slate • Oct. 6, 2022
It is someone, not something, in virtue of there being “something it is like” to be that creature, in the words of philosopher Thomas Nagel.
From Slate • Jun. 21, 2022
Mr. Harding was generally respected, if only in virtue of his position.
From Time Magazine Archive
The miracles were performed in virtue of the martyrs collectively less than four years ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pō′tentness.—Potential energy, the power of doing work possessed by a body in virtue of the stresses which result from its position relatively to other bodies.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
