on the strength of
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: because of the influence of (something)
I went and saw the film on the strength of his recommendation.
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Stapleton scored six, and Post Malone, on the strength of his F-1 Trillion country foray, earned five.
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Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 1 May 2025
Toronto finished with the league’s fourth-best record on the strength of great goaltending, a dominant power play and blocking a metric ton of shots, strengths that have certainly powered them so far in this series.
—James Mirtle, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Reid scored 23 points on the strength of six triples on Saturday.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 20 Apr. 2025
Pete Hegseth and Mike Waltz—clueless, reckless, predictably defiant—won (46 percent) on the strength of their penchant for oversharing classified information.
—Air Mail, 5 Apr. 2025
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Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 1 May 2025
Toronto finished with the league’s fourth-best record on the strength of great goaltending, a dominant power play and blocking a metric ton of shots, strengths that have certainly powered them so far in this series.
—James Mirtle, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Reid scored 23 points on the strength of six triples on Saturday.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 20 Apr. 2025
Pete Hegseth and Mike Waltz—clueless, reckless, predictably defiant—won (46 percent) on the strength of their penchant for oversharing classified information.
—Air Mail, 5 Apr. 2025
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