by means of

Idioms  

1. 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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Example Sentences

Merriam-Webster crowned “slop” as 2025’s word of the year in mid-December, defining it as “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence.”

From Salon

“We define slop as ‘digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence,’” they wrote.

From Salon

Childless and conscious that his imperial predecessors had selected their successors by means of adoption, Hadrian adopted a man in his 50s, who became Antoninus, and instructed that man to adopt, in turn, the 16-year-old Marcus, along with another child, Lucius Ceionius Commodus.

From The Wall Street Journal

Eventually he was offered a post at the Cavendish laboratory—the site of the discovery of the electron in 1897 and the first experimental splitting of the atom in 1932—to work on X-ray crystallography, by means of which the structure of proteins could be investigated.

From The Wall Street Journal

Although Clay believed they could advance by means of education, he regarded that as a very gradual process that would need to be carefully managed by whites.

From The Wall Street Journal