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Six example sentences with thereby, each labelled with its topic.
The port lowered its docking fee and thereby drew traffic away from two rivals that had never lost volume before.
Economics
They opened the client library to the public, thereby turning hundreds of outside developers into unpaid testers of their platform.
Startups
Farmers left the stubble standing over winter, thereby holding topsoil in place through the storms that stripped neighboring fields.
Environment
The tenant paid the disputed rent in full, thereby losing the right to argue later that it was never owed.
Law
The team cached the search results for one minute and thereby cut the database load by nearly half.
Technology
The fund spread its holdings across forty countries, thereby limiting the damage when one market fell by a third.
Finance
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