by means of
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The obscure law bans a person from soliciting or receiving nonpublic information from a public servant by means of their office or employment with the intent to obtain a benefit.
From Slate • Mar. 26, 2026
He argued with righteous tenacity that Southerners could be convinced to relinquish their slaves by means of patient “moral suasion.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2025
It’s a lovely image: Kirk as a modern-day Socrates, wandering the agora of America’s universities seeking to find truth by means of rhetorical contest.
From Salon • Sep. 17, 2025
It would provide training and instruction to the Congolese troops on the ground by means of a contingent of 300 instructors, many of them Romanians.
From BBC • Jan. 30, 2025
Show, by means of a counterexample, that the converse is false.
From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
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