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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Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.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, 25 Oct. 2025
In the United States, there is a long history of sports betting and match-fixing crimes that have been tied to organized crime, both directly and indirectly.
—Paulina Dedaj, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2025
This includes forest loss caused directly by coffee farming - where land was cleared to grow the crop - as well as indirectly, from nearby road and infrastructure projects, for example.
—NPR, 24 Oct. 2025
Bank of America economist David Tinsley warns that consumers are indirectly footing part of the bill for the AI boom through higher utility costs.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025
It can also be spread indirectly through manure, equipment, vehicles, egg flats, crates, clothing and shoes, water and, potentially, feed.
—Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 17 Oct. 2025
Attorney Ben Crump, who represented the Owens family, told NBC News that the skate was thrown indirectly.
—Nicole Briese, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
The rules of fiction require me to do this indirectly, constructing a narrator—whether a character or an imagined voice—to deliver the text at hand.
—Vauhini Vara, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2025
Arkansas Online, 25 Oct. 2025
In the United States, there is a long history of sports betting and match-fixing crimes that have been tied to organized crime, both directly and indirectly.
—Paulina Dedaj, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2025
This includes forest loss caused directly by coffee farming - where land was cleared to grow the crop - as well as indirectly, from nearby road and infrastructure projects, for example.
—NPR, 24 Oct. 2025
Bank of America economist David Tinsley warns that consumers are indirectly footing part of the bill for the AI boom through higher utility costs.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025
It can also be spread indirectly through manure, equipment, vehicles, egg flats, crates, clothing and shoes, water and, potentially, feed.
—Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 17 Oct. 2025
Attorney Ben Crump, who represented the Owens family, told NBC News that the skate was thrown indirectly.
—Nicole Briese, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
The rules of fiction require me to do this indirectly, constructing a narrator—whether a character or an imagined voice—to deliver the text at hand.
—Vauhini Vara, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for indirectly
obliquely
Adverb
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But Sage also shows up later in the episode to obliquely discuss their plans for Marie.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Indirectly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indirectly. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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