by way of

1. Through, via, as in I'm flying to Australia by way of Hawaii . [Mid-1400s]

2. As a means of, as in He paid our fares by way of apology . [Late 1300s]

Example Sentences

Stillness that is not still—think Martha Graham by way of Irving Penn, with a nod to Rei Kawakubo’s mutating forms.

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Serving Afro-Caribbean fare “by way of the Bronx,” Tatiana strikes a balance between familiar and exciting.

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After harvesting, Puglia’s wheat farmers would burn their naked stalks by way of clearing the fields; the process left behind half-burnt kernels on the ground, which were then gathered up by the poorest of the poor and used to make a coarse pasta dough.

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By way of contrast, they have yet to find the net in the Premier League this season.

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Jen’s children know how difficult their grandmother has been, and Paloma offers this to her mother by way of consolation: “The effects of trauma can’t be washed away in a generation,” something she’s read in a book.

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Related Words

• devious 
• labyrinthine 
• meandering 
• rambling 
• tortuous