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View definitions for whereby

whereby

adverb as in by which

conjunction as in by which

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As Dickens must have observed, the often gnarly sounds of English words seem to have sprouted directly from the soil of the British Isles, whereby, in order to utter them, we had to heft the vocal counterparts of stones or cut through auditory brambles.

Renewed layoff activity may simply reflect a normalization of the labor market, whereby hiring may pick up to offset job losses.

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"You cannot have a system whereby the profits are privatised and the losses are socialised," he says.

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NETs are produced through a specialised form of innate immune response known as NETosis, whereby neutrophils expel their DNA to form filamentous structures embedded with cytotoxic enzymes capable of rapidly trapping and neutralizing pathogens.

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"Clinically, the pattern implies a state-dependent vulnerability whereby a brief cooling-off or removal from triggers might permit the dACC/salience control system to recover," he explained.

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

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