Thesaurus results for HOWS

hows

noun

plural of how

as in methods

the means or procedure for doing something the environmental activist eagerly launched into an explanation of the hows and whys of developing renewable energy sources

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The automaker says similar methods have already helped its battery-pack assembly facilities process battery packs 30% faster.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026
The county party has been employing several outreach methods to contact low-propensity voters and remind them to go to the polls.

— Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of methods

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The White House decision has heightened fears that Ukraine could be left exposed to Moscow's escalating attacks as winter approaches.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2026
Over the four decades since, communities have taken different approaches to bring CPR into the classroom.

— Meng Yang, Time, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of approaches

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For some young investors, that means money originally allocated to long-term strategies is being funneled to activities built around immediate outcomes.

— Aneri Jambusaria, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2026
Other strategies make distributions that may include all three types.

— Cheryl Winokur Munk, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of strategies

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Animal health researchers are using related techniques to inoculate poultry against bird flu and cattle against foot-and-mouth disease.

— Robert Kelly, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
British employees traveled to Rheinmetall’s German production site in Unterlüß to learn specialist manufacturing techniques.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of techniques

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Gross fed these 31 methodologies to an AI model along with some 17 million source documents that included news stories, research reports, expired patents, public company filings, and threads from online community discussion boards.

— Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026
Companies that wanted to cut costs in the 1990s and 2000s by outsourcing to China are now being replaced in one of the world's largest markets by businesses that copied their designs and methodologies.

— Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026

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