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
The lack of flexible and open-ended communication, which occurs by means of combinatorial structures or compositionality that allows us to put just about any idea into language, was seen as the great barrier.
From Salon ● May 29, 2025
Show, by means of a counterexample, that the converse is false.
From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
