whereby
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3.9
- subordinating conjunction
- /ˈwɛrˌbaɪ/
- Formal
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por el cual
- The problem is most people live in a situation whereby they have something to lose.
- a process whereby
- a situation whereby
- create a situation whereby
It's like going into a dream whereby you don't come back again.
- It's like going into a dream whereby you don't come back again.
- We have a situation whereby ice sheets form.
- Not that which the ear hears, but that whereby the ear can hear.
- Do you think we're seeing a shift whereby less and less people have faith?
- The problem is most people live in a situation whereby they have something to lose.
- It can foster a pattern whereby a person within a family is never heard.
- And by doing so, it makes me, it fortifies me in a way whereby I am never going to let that happen.
- Another thing that's going on is that so I subscribe to these these models of friendship whereby people have sort of friend rankings.
- And instead of useless efforts or toils, people should choose such as nature recommends, whereby they might have lived happily.
- So they they, they have a rite of passage, that tribe that serves as the precursor of commercial bungee jumping whereby they take vine ropes.
- With neglectful narcissists, there is also a dynamic whereby you feel like you need to work hard to get their attention.
- And so that utopic notion that you're mentioning, it's like the utopic requires a certain theatrical space whereby we might play.
Examples
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It's basically now been put into a position whereby we're struggling to get it out there.
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The committee established a system whereby volunteers can sign up to help the community.
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Do you think we're seeing a shift whereby less and less people have faith?
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A slow process could begin whereby only free states were added to the Union.
Academic text (1999) -
So that you could set up a bank whereby they could deposit these development rights in that bank.
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We have a situation whereby ice sheets form.
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You mean, eventually the gas and the air will reach a mixture whereby we will get some kind of reaction?
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Eventually, American demands on Iraq reached a level whereby Iraq was expected to consent to its own military.
Academic text (1991) -
Pupils in rural schools need to have an appropriate curriculum whereby they can individually achieve optimally.
Academic text (1999) -
We've since developed securitization, whereby people who make the loan are no longer at risk if they fail to repay.
Synonyms
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9.9
With the things you need to do something, for example money or tools
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word whereby is made from the words where and by, meaning 'by which' or 'through which'. That's why we use whereby to join a rule or plan to the way it will be done, telling 'how' something is accomplished.