indirectly

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Recent Examples of indirectly Indeed, a slower art market has indirectly weighed on her decision to close, as the gallery’s overall sales have dropped by about 40 percent over the last three years. — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 6 Oct. 2026 Lawmakers in Austin indirectly impact the tax burden by creating homestead exemptions and limiting the growth of local tax rates. — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Oct. 2026 The magnetic moments also interact indirectly through electrons moving through the material, linking the atomic structure to the way those moments arrange themselves. — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2026 The firm is owned by shareholders but led by managers, who answer to shareholders only indirectly. — Ben Tarnoff, The New York Review of Books, 3 Oct. 2026 One is that UPFs can damage heart and blood vessel health, indirectly affecting the brain. — Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026 Manufacturers may experience the associated costs indirectly through cloud consumption, vendor pricing or infrastructure investments. — Claudio Laterreur, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026 Mosquitos have earned their spot as the world’s deadliest animal, indirectly responsible for more than a million deaths each year. — New Atlas, 1 Oct. 2026 Worse still, the most energizing talks tended to be ignored by many of the academics in attendance, who preferred to ask questions that indirectly linked back to their area of specialism. — Bartolomeo Sala, The Dial, 29 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for indirectly
obliquely
Adverb
  • However, in 2017, the state Supreme Court, in a case dealing with a local marijuana tax, obliquely suggested that special taxes proposed by initiative need only a simple majority approval.
    — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 27 Aug. 2026
  • In particular, González’s works enable his performers to obliquely animate histories of resistance and refusal.
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 6 Aug. 2026

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“Indirectly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indirectly. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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