Whereby
conjunction
A word used to show the method or way in which something happens or is done.
They've set up a plan whereby you can spread payments over a number of months.
Often appears as...
- plan whereby
- agreement whereby
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Formal
Academic
conjunction
Used to introduce a clause explaining the way in which an effect is produced.
This is a technique whereby a more fluent speaker helps the less fluent speaker.
Often appears as...
- technique whereby
- method whereby
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
conjunction
A word used to show the method or way in which something happens or is done.
They've set up a plan whereby you can spread payments over a number of months.
Often appears as...
- plan whereby
- agreement whereby
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
conjunction
Used to introduce a clause explaining the way in which an effect is produced.
This is a technique whereby a more fluent speaker helps the less fluent speaker.
Often appears as...
- technique whereby
- method whereby
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Contractual Binding
Used in legal or formal texts to describe conditions that bind parties in an agreement.
She signed a contract whereby she is obligated to complete the work by January.
Pro Tip 2/3Fixed Procedures
Reflects fixed or established methods in professional or academic contexts.
The university has a rule whereby all assignments must be submitted electronically.
Pro Tip 3/3Explicit Methods
Highlights the specific way in which an action or result is achieved, often step by step.
He outlined a strategy whereby we could increase our market share.
Pro Tip 1/3Contractual Binding
Used in legal or formal texts to describe conditions that bind parties in an agreement.
She signed a contract whereby she is obligated to complete the work by January.
Pro Tip 2/3Fixed Procedures
Reflects fixed or established methods in professional or academic contexts.
The university has a rule whereby all assignments must be submitted electronically.
Pro Tip 3/3Explicit Methods
Highlights the specific way in which an action or result is achieved, often step by step.
He outlined a strategy whereby we could increase our market share.
Pro Tip 1/3Contractual Binding
Used in legal or formal texts to describe conditions that bind parties in an agreement.
She signed a contract whereby she is obligated to complete the work by January.
Pro Tip 2/3Fixed Procedures
Reflects fixed or established methods in professional or academic contexts.
The university has a rule whereby all assignments must be submitted electronically.
Pro Tip 3/3Explicit Methods
Highlights the specific way in which an action or result is achieved, often step by step.
He outlined a strategy whereby we could increase our market share.
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Nicholas Christakis: How...
So this would be a technique whereby we could get more than a month-and-a-half warning about a flu epidemic in a particular population. I should say that how far advanced a notice one might get about something depends on a host of factors. It could depend on the nature of the pathogen -- different pathogens,
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New ways to understand...
important thing that I wanted to say here is that the focus on each of the budgetary measures is not just relief you'll notice from everything I've described that the focus is much more about long-term transformation it's about putting people on a footing whereby in the long term as they use the
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Rats Save Humans From...
designed to stretch their mine-sniffing capabilities. We use three meter, and we call it contamination, whereby we use iron and casings, so we put them down in the field. They have three-meter wide. That's why we call them three meter. Then the large one is used with that system.
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Cheese, dogs and a pill...
indeed first we observed that not all mosquito species bite on the same part of the body strange so we set up an experiment whereby we put a naked volunteer in a large cage and in that case we release mosquitoes to see where they were biting on the body of that
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Brain magic PIPE Keith Barry
I'm so afraid of what I'm going to see. You're fine, take it off. You're OK. You're safe. Have you ever heard of second sight? Second sight is whereby a mind-control expert can see through somebody else's eyes. And I'm going to try that right now.
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How carbon capture...
And when we dig a little deeper, we find that optimization of distances between sinks and sources matters. It matters a lot in terms of the cost. Network effects, which is the mechanism whereby the benefits of a system to a user
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Mac Barnett: Why a good...
The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies." I first heard this when I was a kid, and I loved it, but I had no idea what it meant. So I thought, you know what, it's what I'm here
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How motivation can fix...
to impact the best- and the worst-performing districts. We wanted the rankings to motivate every district. So we took inspiration from soccer leagues, and created a three-tiered ranking system, whereby every quarter,
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Lessons from fungi on...
You can't see where or when important trade deals take place. So our group helped pioneer a method, a technology, whereby we could tag nutrients with nanoparticles,
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The Nature of Nature PIPE...
this one truth is at the heart of my life's work whereby diversity is allowed to flourish
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Nicholas Christakis: How...
So this would be a technique whereby we could get more than a month-and-a-half warning about a flu epidemic in a particular population. I should say that how far advanced a notice one might get about something depends on a host of factors. It could depend on the nature of the pathogen -- different pathogens,
Video examples
New ways to understand...
important thing that I wanted to say here is that the focus on each of the budgetary measures is not just relief you'll notice from everything I've described that the focus is much more about long-term transformation it's about putting people on a footing whereby in the long term as they use the
Video examples
Rats Save Humans From...
designed to stretch their mine-sniffing capabilities. We use three meter, and we call it contamination, whereby we use iron and casings, so we put them down in the field. They have three-meter wide. That's why we call them three meter. Then the large one is used with that system.
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Cheese, dogs and a pill...
indeed first we observed that not all mosquito species bite on the same part of the body strange so we set up an experiment whereby we put a naked volunteer in a large cage and in that case we release mosquitoes to see where they were biting on the body of that
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Brain magic PIPE Keith Barry
I'm so afraid of what I'm going to see. You're fine, take it off. You're OK. You're safe. Have you ever heard of second sight? Second sight is whereby a mind-control expert can see through somebody else's eyes. And I'm going to try that right now.
Video examples
How carbon capture...
And when we dig a little deeper, we find that optimization of distances between sinks and sources matters. It matters a lot in terms of the cost. Network effects, which is the mechanism whereby the benefits of a system to a user
Video examples
Mac Barnett: Why a good...
The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies." I first heard this when I was a kid, and I loved it, but I had no idea what it meant. So I thought, you know what, it's what I'm here
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How motivation can fix...
to impact the best- and the worst-performing districts. We wanted the rankings to motivate every district. So we took inspiration from soccer leagues, and created a three-tiered ranking system, whereby every quarter,
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Lessons from fungi on...
You can't see where or when important trade deals take place. So our group helped pioneer a method, a technology, whereby we could tag nutrients with nanoparticles,
Video examples
The Nature of Nature PIPE...
this one truth is at the heart of my life's work whereby diversity is allowed to flourish
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Noreena Hertz
English Author
It is a world of extremes, which can be characterised most clearly in terms of exclusion. That means political exclusion, whereby the rights of citizens are marginalised by the interests of big business: George W Bush's environmental policy, for example, is clearly formulated in the interests of U.S. energy companies.
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Richard Attenborough
English Actor
Throughout my life, I always remember that consideration of people who were less fortunate than we. We lived in an atmosphere of awareness, and we certainly did not live a life whereby we ignored, or felt that we could ignore, that which was in evidence around us.
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Frederick William Robertson
English Clergyman
The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.
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Zawe Ashton
English Actress
I think anyone who has been bullied finds it life-affirming if you live to tell the tale. I just wish someone told me at school that there's this weird average whereby if you're not popular at school you will become popular later.
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Roger Scruton
English Philosopher
Morality is like a field of flowers beneath which the corpses are piled in a thousand layers. It is an evolved mechanism whereby the human organism proceeds through life sustained on every side by bonds of mutual interest.
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Emily Thornberry
British Politician
We need to have a system whereby, when a victim walks into a police station, she can be confident that she will be believed and that every effort will be made find evidence to support her in court.
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Hugh Laurie
British Actor
I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.
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Penelope Lively
English Author
Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed a distinctive version of the story.
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Jaan Tallinn
Estonian Businessman
Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future, would create the expectation that doing long-term good is valuable.
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Robert South
English Clergyman
Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
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Noreena Hertz
English Author
It is a world of extremes, which can be characterised most clearly in terms of exclusion. That means political exclusion, whereby the rights of citizens are marginalised by the interests of big business: George W Bush's environmental policy, for example, is clearly formulated in the interests of U.S. energy companies.
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Richard Attenborough
English Actor
Throughout my life, I always remember that consideration of people who were less fortunate than we. We lived in an atmosphere of awareness, and we certainly did not live a life whereby we ignored, or felt that we could ignore, that which was in evidence around us.
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Frederick William Robertson
English Clergyman
The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.
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Zawe Ashton
English Actress
I think anyone who has been bullied finds it life-affirming if you live to tell the tale. I just wish someone told me at school that there's this weird average whereby if you're not popular at school you will become popular later.
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Roger Scruton
English Philosopher
Morality is like a field of flowers beneath which the corpses are piled in a thousand layers. It is an evolved mechanism whereby the human organism proceeds through life sustained on every side by bonds of mutual interest.
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Emily Thornberry
British Politician
We need to have a system whereby, when a victim walks into a police station, she can be confident that she will be believed and that every effort will be made find evidence to support her in court.
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Hugh Laurie
British Actor
I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.
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Penelope Lively
English Author
Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed a distinctive version of the story.
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Jaan Tallinn
Estonian Businessman
Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future, would create the expectation that doing long-term good is valuable.
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Robert South
English Clergyman
Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
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