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View definitions for whereby

whereby

adverb as in by which

conjunction as in by which

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Announcing its decision last month, Massive Attack said Spotify had long placed an "economic burden" on artists, which was "now compounded by a moral and ethical burden, whereby the hard-earned money of fans and the creative endeavours of musicians ultimately funds lethal, dystopian technologies".

From BBC

Wessel was what Hannah Arendt would have called a failed intellectual: a product of the dark underworld of modern, atomized society, whereby a person of above average intelligence, burning ambition and an essential rootlessness and absence of moral values becomes the building block of totalitarian movements – or, perhaps, the scum that floats to the top in times of social crisis.

From Salon

They had two options – either have a version of IVF whereby the embryo is tested for the gene before implantation, or conceive naturally and have the developing embryo tested.

From BBC

There were moments when digesting his work, whereby I felt he was articulating something I had never quite found words for myself.

Then there are long-established hydro power systems, whereby water is released from a higher reservoir to a lower one, also driving turbines.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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