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thereby

You use thereby to say why or how something happened: in that way. He pulled it closer to him, thereby making it far easier to get up. Food product quality is more easily maintained thereby reducing spoilage losses. Water reflects less light than ice, thereby allowing the oceans to absorb more heat from the sun. I'm concerned by attempts to limit this right and thereby to limit our freedom. Having missed the first bit, he listened closely to catch the rest, hoping thereby to reply sensibly. This change would prevent the team (and thereby the school) from advancing.

thereby

by that means or because of that He knocked over the red wine, thereby ruining the table cloth

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Simple sentences

The failure was detected in time, thereby a disaster was prevented.
He is usually straightforward and sincere and thereby gains the confidence of those who meet him.
The secret of the agitator is to make himself as stupid as his audience; thereby they believe they are as clever as he is.
Newly developed, IT-based, minimally invasive surgery techniques are currently gaining momentum, thereby revolutionizing healthcare in its entirety.
Because the servers communicated in their mother tongue among themselves, some customers complained and thereby made a pathetic display of their own shortcomings.
Everyone can make a difference in their own lives and thereby collectively make the world a better place for themselves and others around them.
King Hezekiah broke into pieces the brazen serpent, because the sons of Israel made an idol out of it, thereby violating the second commandment.

Movie subtitles

There's a possibility of binary stars - two stars that orbit each other, thereby dimming the stars as one blocks the other.
Calling Evan as you walked in thereby leaving evidence of your own shocked discovery.
Can you identify any or all of these defendants as having been in the mob that stormed your jail and burned it thereby burning your prisoner to death?
You have standards, thereby breached the law. It happened everywhere.
Thereby you will gain your greatest victory and glory and you shall become the foremost and greatest nation of all.
May our descendants adhere to this decree, and thereby be spared suffering for their own well-being and for the sake of their children and their children's children.
Thereby shall we shadow The numbers of our host and make discovery err in report of us.
Thereby cost us a waste of three years.
I will not reason what is meant thereby, because I will be guiltless of the meaning.
He decide to hunt Eliza not only with soldiers but with scientific dogs who sniff and smell and thereby discover all who run from king.
And thereby wrapped everything up into one very neat and tidy bundle.
Portrait of a man who thinks and thereby gets things done.
Thereby your admiral won't know how to interfere with my running the fleet.
He even found a specific for fowl paralysis, thereby saving poultry ranches the lives of thousands of chickens.
Thereby, empowering Heep to draw out trust money.
If you insist upon my leaving, thereby causing me to suffer a relapse I shall sue you for every additional day I am held inactive which will amount, I assure you, to a tidy sum.
Thereby shall we shadow.
May I ask Your Majesty to open the Palledance with me and thereby crown my ball?
You will pass through the arch seven times and thereby enter a new life.
When you shot at the plasma stream, thereby changing mass to energy, I noticed a change in the nerve center at the bottom of the shaft.
May i remind you that had you got to the church at the time specified, you'd have arrived there before the police did, thereby avoiding a nasty fracas with the law.
By forcing the poison through the epidermis and thereby into the blood.
Thereby shall we shadow the numbers of our host and make discovery err in report of us.
Thereby you can suspend yourself in space with absolute safety.
And thereby hangs a tale, yes.
The object is still pursuing us, thereby causing us to drain our power reserve at a much greater rate.
I act the madman out of the anger and frustration he forces upon me, and thereby prove his point that I am a madman.
To be sure to break the German defenses, I suggest to curtail the army's line of attack by 6 kilometers, thereby increasing the density of artillery barrels up to 300 guns per a kilometer of the front.
And within a short time, brought life back to normal. Thereby making us men happy and women.
Don't you realise that the men. you are working with were seriously interfering with our space project, and thereby endangering the lives of three astronauts.
Evidence obtained thereby, such as that hunting rifle for instance. is inadmissible in court.
Thereby they shadow the number of their host and make discovery err in report of them.
She was treating me exactly like a discarded lover, thereby forcing me to react jealously.
I'm reversing the polarity of my ultrasonic screwdriver's power source, thereby converting it into an extremely powerful electromagnet.
Another sophist of similarly limited mental capacity presents a contrary argument: By publicly denouncing the spectacle, am I not thereby entering the spectacle?

News and current affairs

For many of his supporters, it was President Ronald Reagan who, with his deliberate escalation of the arms race, pushed the Soviet economy to the brink, thereby fully demonstrating the superiority of liberal societies and free markets.
Second, we must restore coral reefs' capacity to cope with environmental change--their resilience--by protecting the fish stocks that keep seaweed in check, and thereby facilitate the recovery of coral populations from bleaching.
These companies are uniquely placed to move new ideas and technologies into early-stage demonstration projects, thereby accelerating global learning cycles.
Another example is the smorgasbord of special benefits provided to the energy sector, especially oil and gas, thereby simultaneously robbing the treasury, distorting resource allocation, and destroying the environment.
We can reduce childhood deprivation and increase equality of opportunity, thereby laying the groundwork for a more just and prosperous future - one that reflects our own avowed values.
Governments absorb the excess of private savings over private investment and re-inject it into the global economy, thereby stabilizing aggregate demand and the financial system.
In cases of extreme rights abuses, the chance that an international criminal tribunal will ultimately sit in judgment of those principally responsible is growing, thereby becoming a deterrent to would-be tyrants elsewhere.
Should not the Fed step in and replace them with its own purchases of long-term US Treasury bonds, thereby keeping long-term interest rates at a level conducive to full employment?
The expenditure cuts mandated by the outcome of the debt-ceiling debate will reduce economic activity, thereby undermining growth and making debt reduction even more difficult.
The evidence of what Nazi Germany did is so powerful that those who deny it can probably be dealt with even without putting them in prison and thereby drawing more attention to them than they deserve.
For example, the General Assembly should hold public hearings in which candidates are interviewed, thereby greatly enhancing the stature of the candidate who is eventually selected.
Usually, such a vision provides a scenario for the future that is meant to encourage change, though it may also portray the status quo - or the past - as attractive, thereby encouraging resistance to change.
In these circumstances, a no-fly zone would not only clear the skies of Syrian warplanes and missiles, thereby reducing the scale of the slaughter; it would also show Assad and his supporters that he truly is vulnerable.
Deflation increased real interest rates and curbed economic activity, thereby setting off another round of deflation, and so on.
How can one pair electrons without ions holding them together, thereby enabling higher-temperature superconductors?
As the world's second-largest source of foreign direct investment, the EU wields considerable influence, with European investors bringing credibility to projects and regions, thereby serving to attract further investment.
What the EU needs now is an updated external strategy that capitalizes on this allure to bolster its influence, security, and prosperity, thereby halting its slide toward irrelevance.
But the regime, like Franco's dictatorship, did not treat the members of this new middle class like adults, thereby encouraging widespread frustration.
Many of these structural problems were hidden from view before the crisis, thereby delaying both market and policy responses.
In the US, when oil prices go up, incomes in Texas and Montana rise, which means that these states then contribute more tax revenue to the federal budget, thereby helping out the rest of the country.
Both sides have substantially reduced their options, thereby limiting the possibility of a diplomatic compromise.
A number of Asian countries have already started building mutually beneficial security cooperation on a bilateral basis, thereby laying the groundwork for a potential web of interlocking strategic partnerships.
In this uncertain context, the APEC summit could shed much-needed light on the intentions of Abe and Xi, thereby providing crucial insight into the trajectory of Sino-Japanese relations - and thus the future of East Asia.
But this was possible only because the Swedish government already owned all the assets, thereby circumventing the hopelessly difficult issue of pricing them.

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