by means of
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Through the use of, owing to, as in We plan to pay for medical school by means of a second mortgage, or He'll succeed by means of sheer persistence. [Early 1400s] Also see by dint of.
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Words nearby by means of
bylane, bylaw, by leaps and bounds, byline, byliner, by means of, by mistake, byname, Byng, by no means, by no stretch
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