wherewith

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Cruz aspires to obtain her PhD in neuroscience, wherewith to study Alzheimer's and neurodegenerative diseases, but her undocumented status causes a lot of uncertainty.

From Scientific American • Dec. 12, 2018

I presented them with some red caps, and strings of glass beads to wear upon the neck, and many other trifles of small value, wherewith they were much delighted, and became wonderfully attached to us.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

Such was the glamorous slogan wherewith Swindleress Hanau dazzled and duped tight-fisted rural Frenchmen and took away their francs.

From Time Magazine Archive

He thus had some 110,000 men wherewith to defend Santander, a larger force than that of advancing Rightist General Jose Fidel Davila, but markedly inferior in munitions and warcraft.

From Time Magazine Archive

This request, he said, he was forced to make, as he had not otherwise wherewith to pay for necessaries supplied to him.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Whymper, Frederick