by the same token
Idioms-
In the same way, for the same reason. For example, He has a good ear for music, and by the same token he finds it easy to pronounce foreign words . This phrase today is used in a general way to connect statements that have some logical association with one another. [Mid-1400s]
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As a corroborating circumstance, as in Boston's population has grown very fast, and by the same token its urban problems have also increased . [Late 1800s]
Example Sentences
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“No one should go all-in… but by the same token, no one should stay all-out.”
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 27, 2026
But by the same token, sources have told BBC Sport that work towards a contingency plan in the event they make a decision they really don't want to make illustrates the precarity of Frank's position.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026
It has annihilated the concept of a good life by the same token.
From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2022
Yet, by the same token, drivers are coaxed, through a variety of incentives, to work for one ride-hailing platform exclusively.
From Slate ● Sep. 13, 2022
As a consummate individualist and by the same token a cosmopolite to the full, Nietzsche was the last remove from national, or strictly speaking even from racial, jingoism.
From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Otto Heller
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