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Meaning of thereby in English

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  1. Pronunciation
  2. Adverb
    1. Definitions
  1. Pronunciation

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  1. Adverb

    thereby

    Definitions

    1. by that means or because of that

    Examples

    • « He knocked over the red wine, thereby ruining the table cloth »

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  • « The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy. »
    John F. Kennedy
  • « It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results. »
    Sun Tzu
  • « There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done. »
    Aldous Huxley
  • « Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved. »
    Herbert Croly
  • « Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them. »
    Sai Baba

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