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Recent Examples of indirectly
Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.
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Arkansas Online, 29 Jan. 2026
In the late 1990s, psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen developed a new metric for assessing human mental and emotional conditions, albeit indirectly.
—Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
The rapid rise of AI technology has had negative effects on the climate and humanity, albeit indirectly.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 28 Jan. 2026
Yoon, 75, owns 34% of the company’s shares (directly and indirectly) and also has a small stake in its eye-drop manufacturing arm called Optus Pharmaceutical.
—Amy Feldman, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
Luhn noted that the trend may work indirectly.
—Kathleen Ferraro, Verywell Health, 28 Jan. 2026
Is Happy Days indirectly responsible for the proliferation of the Heimlich maneuver?
—Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Jan. 2026
Arsenic spikes in New Zealand’s Waikato River were blamed on invasive clams, and recent Houthi attacks in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait indirectly caused a shift in oceanic cloud formation.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
Detecting such an excess would point indirectly to the unstable particle’s existence.
—Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2026
Arkansas Online, 29 Jan. 2026
In the late 1990s, psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen developed a new metric for assessing human mental and emotional conditions, albeit indirectly.
—Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
The rapid rise of AI technology has had negative effects on the climate and humanity, albeit indirectly.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 28 Jan. 2026
Yoon, 75, owns 34% of the company’s shares (directly and indirectly) and also has a small stake in its eye-drop manufacturing arm called Optus Pharmaceutical.
—Amy Feldman, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
Luhn noted that the trend may work indirectly.
—Kathleen Ferraro, Verywell Health, 28 Jan. 2026
Is Happy Days indirectly responsible for the proliferation of the Heimlich maneuver?
—Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Jan. 2026
Arsenic spikes in New Zealand’s Waikato River were blamed on invasive clams, and recent Houthi attacks in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait indirectly caused a shift in oceanic cloud formation.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
Detecting such an excess would point indirectly to the unstable particle’s existence.
—Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for indirectly
obliquely
Adverb
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That’s what Lenny, a biopic of comedian Lenny Bruce, is obliquely about.—
Lili Anolik,
Vanity Fair,
12 Jan. 2026
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If its absence speaks obliquely to the Dadaist disregard for aesthetic permanence, its iconography—and its iconoclastic mordancy—echoes throughout his entire corpus.—
Ara H. Merjian,
Artforum,
1 Jan. 2026
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“Indirectly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indirectly. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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