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

The UK and Scottish governments have discussed dealing with this problem by means of a transfer of powers known as a section 104 order.

From BBC

This is the first time squads in the Hundred have been assembled by means of an auction.

From BBC

Viollet-le-Duc did not study at the state-run École des Beaux Arts, but came to architecture by means of drawing.

From The Wall Street Journal

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