How to Use of means in a Sentence
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That left the team to outsource player care through a variety of means.
—Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 12 Dec. 2025
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It's come about in a variety of ways and through a variety of means and countries.
—Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Sep. 2024
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The devices then alert the person through a variety of means, to change their posture.
—Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 10 Nov. 2021
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As people of means — many of them white — continue to move to Inglewood, there’s a push to keep them out.
—Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2024
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At the turn of the twentieth century, occult orders had been the height of fashion for any young man of means.
—Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 12 June 2024
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The Brants’ version of Mount Vernon changed the way people of means wanted to live.
—Town & Country, 3 May 2023
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The threat actor uses a variety of means to compromise its victims.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2023
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Metrick also surmises that many people of means are hooked on luxury.
—Phil Wahba, Fortune, 6 Jan. 2023
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Right now, there’s a situation where no one can get any food or any water or anything, even people of means, even those that are well-to-do.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2022
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But savvy people of means see opportunity and are comfortable buying when shares are low.
—Gabriel Shahin, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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Most of this is based on statistical sampling of a subset of data collected by the crudest of means.
—Vipin Bharathan, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
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The juveniles admitted to stealing the Jeep and were charged with theft of means of transportation.
—Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2022
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Now imagine that rich man being mean to you AND having plenty of means to ruin your life.
—Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 19 June 2023
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Wyoming law gives wide leeway for people to kill wolves and other predators by a variety of means in the vast majority of the state.
—CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026
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Wyoming law gives wide leeway for people to kill wolves and other predators by a variety of means in the vast majority of the state.
—ABC News, 8 Apr. 2026
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The film prizes style, but has no higher ambition than to entertain, with an economy of means and no fussy pretension.
—Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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This is testament to their generosity not only of spirit but also of means and resources.
—Tiziana Cardini, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2022
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The resistance, research shows, is tied not only to residents’ lack of means to maintain trees but also to distrust.
—Jingnan Peng, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 June 2024
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Very few people of means these days—people who travel and wear awesome outfits and post about it online—actually seem to have any taste.
—Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Sep. 2022
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This scenario—a woman with no money destabilizes a family of means—has become a blueprint.
—Judy Berman, Time, 30 Jan. 2026
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But these writers were all white, able-bodied, unencumbered men of means who bore me no similarity.
—New York Times, 29 Mar. 2022
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Time’s Up began with the best intentions, with women of means pledging their money to stop the predation.
—Melissa Silverstein, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2023
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But while many parents of means splurged for babysitters, hunted down drop-in day-care spots, or queued up for private-pay day camps, most free offerings stood empty.
—Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2023
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And Whitaker comes from a family that's not necessarily of means.
—Ashley Boucher, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2025
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Hu could not fathom how someone like O’Loughlin—a man of means and privilege—had come to believe outrageous lies.
—Longreads, 6 Apr. 2023
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But Edgerton is the rare actor who can fully communicate a character using the sparest of means.
—Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 7 Nov. 2025
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The painstaking construction of the chambers, as well as the goods found inside, indicate the Huans were a family of means.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2024
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With great size comes great decorative responsibility, and men of means rose to the occasion.
—Dana Snitzky, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
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Incursions can be launched by a variety of means, including something as simple as an employee clicking a phishing link in an email.
—Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2023
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For too long they have been considered unromantic and pessimistic; a document foisted on a bride by a man of means who cares more about his assets than her happiness.
—Ginger Gentile, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
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