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thereby

adverb as in by that

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These cells help remove senescence cells, thereby limiting their negative effects.

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The long answer was that there were huge sums of money to be made, if you could somehow get them re-rated as triple-A, thereby lowering their perceived risk, however dishonestly and artificially.

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It therefore doesn’t take much for a stock that is losing to beat expectations and for a winning stock to fall short — thereby causing the prior loser to beat the prior winner.

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Yoon and others "conspired to create conditions that would allow the declaration of emergency martial law, thereby increasing the risk of inter-Korean armed confrontation and harming public military interests," said Park.

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Undeterred, Israel’s adversaries have evaded this mere technicality by allowing the Palestinian Authority to accede to the ICC treaty as a “state,” thereby conferring jurisdiction over crimes purportedly committed in the Gaza Strip.

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

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