as in therefore
for this or that reason
we didn't have room for all seven of us in my car and thus took two cars to go to the movies
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Recent Examples of thus
Autonomous driving tech may eventually be incorporated into The Boring Company's Loops, but thus far, there's no guarantee that the tech is safe enough to avoid crashes.
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Charles Singh, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Sep. 2025
Early Americans thus saw jury service not merely as a procedural safeguard against overreaching government authority, but as a way to distribute the power granted by the Constitution, ensuring that ordinary citizens played an important role.
—Richard Lorren Jolly, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2025
Higher interest rates thus increase Powerball amounts – and public interest in playing it.
—George Petras, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
On Thursday, Jones will be on-hand at Dallas’ season opener to see his rival Philadelphia Eagles lift a championship banner—and thus watch what salary cap maneuvering has led to.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 4 Sep. 2025
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Charles Singh, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Sep. 2025
Early Americans thus saw jury service not merely as a procedural safeguard against overreaching government authority, but as a way to distribute the power granted by the Constitution, ensuring that ordinary citizens played an important role.
—Richard Lorren Jolly, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2025
Higher interest rates thus increase Powerball amounts – and public interest in playing it.
—George Petras, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
On Thursday, Jones will be on-hand at Dallas’ season opener to see his rival Philadelphia Eagles lift a championship banner—and thus watch what salary cap maneuvering has led to.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 4 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for thus
Adverb
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Judge Timothy Mazzei ruled that the new testing is accepted by the scientific community and therefore valid as evidence.—
Michael Ruiz , Jennifer Johnson,
FOXNews.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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Brandon explained that the reason for the tight timing was that Disney insisted on sticking to the movie's December 2019 release date rather than delaying it which would have increased the post-production time and therefore the cost.—
Caroline Reid,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Miami’s play was so decisively putrid that the 33-8 loss to the Colts seemed almost a blessing because the game felt so much more lopsided than that.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
8 Sep. 2025
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The series has so far been responsible for 51 seasons during its nearly two-decade run.—
Brenton Blanchet,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025
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Under this thinking, liberal democratic capitalism was the last political and economic model standing after the global struggles of the 20th century—and, consequently, the inevitable final political form for every other society on Earth.—
Time,
Time,
3 Sep. 2025
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Fourth, conditions designed to keep users playing the sweepstakes games for a longer period of time and, consequently, spending more money to facilitate sweepstakes play are indicative that the true purpose of the business is to promote sweepstakes play, as opposed to a legitimate good or service.—
Daniel Wallach,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Thus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thus. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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