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adverb

furthermore

CEFR B1

denoting additional information

In a sentence

Six example sentences with furthermore, each labelled with its topic.

  • The clause is ambiguous; furthermore, it contradicts a schedule that the same parties signed only three months earlier.

    Law

  • The bill would cost more than promised; furthermore, it hands the spending decisions to a committee nobody elects.

    Politics

  • The fund charges high fees; furthermore, it has trailed its own benchmark in seven of the last nine years.

    Finance

  • The argument assumes what it sets out to prove; furthermore, its second premise contradicts the author's own earlier chapter.

    Philosophy

  • The subsidy is expensive; furthermore, most of it reaches large farms that would have planted the crop anyway.

    Economics

  • The tower blocks the afternoon sun from the park; furthermore, its lobby turns a blank wall to the busiest street.

    Architecture

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