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US
/ˈðɛɹˈbaɪ/
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[ UK /ðeəbˈaɪ/ ]
[ UK /ðeəbˈaɪ/ ]
ADVERB
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by that means or because of that
He knocked over the red wine, thereby ruining the table cloth
How To Use thereby In A Sentence
- Although, as we shall see, Ryle says a good deal more about our mental concepts, it cannot be said that he seriously addresses this question and thereby slays the bogy of mechanism.
- To let his brain swell and keep the blood flowing, thereby preventing the damage from worsening, doctors removed virtually the entire left side of his skull, a procedure known as a craniectomy. Traumatic brain injury leaves an often-invisible, life-altering wound
- Some of these chemicals may mimic hormones, thereby disrupting the endocrine system.
- In a healthy pregnancy, cells that come from the embryo's placenta-called trophoblast cells-move into the walls of the uterus and help to open up maternal arteries, thereby increasing the available blood and nutrient supply. Slate Articles
- Thereby, one-dimensional or multidimensional attribute of call events is displayed simultaneously through the invention.
- Tribal traditions and a male-dominated reading of Islam have produced a deeply rooted ideology of women as temptresses, who must be kept under control to avoid "fitna" or social strife, thereby safeguarding the "peace of Islam. Ida Lichter, M.D.: Afghan Women's Movements Deserve More From the West
- At least half of the country's population voted, thereby validating the result.
- So his Hebrew schooling thereby climaxed; his public participation galvanising him to accelerated study.
- Festivals that provide a forum for Arab and Israeli art and culture, and universities and academies that offer joint courses in the Qur'an and the Bible, midrash and tafsir, cabbalah and Sufism, thereby placing them in their original relation to one another, are today only feasible in exile -- in the West, of all places, which bears part of the blame for the present-day impossible situation. MRZine.org
- After a time my brothers began pressing me to travel with them; but I refused saying, “What gained ye by travel voyage that I should gain thereby?” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night