How to Use a means to an end in a Sentence

a means to an end

noun phrase

• The pattern is clear: AI works best as a means to an end.
  — Ellie Victor, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025
• Rather, it should be viewed as any other tool, a means to an end.
  — Theodore McDarrah, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
• Remember that wealth is not an end but a means to an end.
  — Melissa Houston, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
• Power for Mugabe was not a means to an end but the end itself.
  — Martin Meredith, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2018
• Rather, our investors see ESG best practices as a means to an end.
  — Cole Shephard, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2023
• Apartments, we’re told, were once a means to an end, to getting a larger home.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 Nov. 2023
• Like in every domain, AI is a means to an end, not an end in itself.
  — Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
• The data should be a means to an end, though, not a source of validation in its own right.
  — Samantha Kleinberg, STAT, 8 Jan. 2024
• But, instead of just a means to an end kind of job, Thompson has chosen a path with a purpose.
  — Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 5 Aug. 2024
• For Dolan, the HBO experiment was largely a means to an end.
  — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 29 Dec. 2024
• Profits are critical, to be sure; but profits are a means to an end.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 7 July 2023
• Instead, the mass firings don’t seem to be a means to an end on the way to overhauling American health.
  — Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2025
• In some of these stories, the genre elements are a means to an end rather than the principal focus.
  — Dexter Palmer, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2023
• Her appearance in Mean Girls: The Musical was a means to an end tied to her biggest goals as an artist.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 2023
• Well, online comedy was always a means to an end for me.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 29 Nov. 2024
• The big picture: Lisa Shah's interest in AI started purely as a means to an end.
  — Megan Morrone, Axios, 25 Oct. 2024
• Trump does not see tariffs as a means to an end, that is, as a negotiating tool.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
• Going on this date with Margeret though showed me a different way, that dating doesn’t have to chip away at us or be a means to an end.
  — Phoebe McIlwraith, refinery29.com, 11 Apr. 2024
• Does the leader only want to focus on profit, and are workers and customers simply a means to an end?
  — Wayne Elsey, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
• At the end of the day, the flight is just a means to an end — an adventure, a celebration, or an occasion is just a seatbelt sign away.
  — Jocelyn Newman, Travel + Leisure, 14 Dec. 2024
• In the run-up to the Iraq War, diplomacy and weapons inspections became a means to an end: building a casus belli.
  — Foreign Affairs, 18 Oct. 2012
• What policymakers need to remember is that GDP is a means to an end, not an end in itself.
  — Abhijit V. Banerjee, Foreign Affairs, 3 Dec. 2019
• Big moves, blindsides, backstabs — these are exciting when a means to an end, but strange when an end unto themselves.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 6 Sep. 2024
• Drafting was not a means to an end, artistic or architectural.
  — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• Through these conversations, Claire realized that money is more than a means to an end.
  — Sharon Olson, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
• Moreover, view financial accounting as a means to an end as opposed to an end in itself.
  — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
• But, as fans of the book know and viewers of the film eventually learn, Nina's behavior is all a means to an end.
  — Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Dec. 2025
• The pay for contract labor was the highest in the industry, and many nurses saw the job as a means to an end, hoping to pay off their student debt.
  — Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Nov. 2025
• In all the performing arts, people find their methods as a means to an end.
  — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 3 Nov. 2025
• In all the performing arts, people find their methods as a means to an end.
  — Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019