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• n  interchangeable with `means' in the expression `by means of'

• The election of the first black President of the United States of America had been an epic journey, not only by virtue of the racial barriers it smashed but also by dint of the .
• Gates is the Bing Crosby of American technology, borrowing a tune here and a tune there and turning them all into great boffo hits by dint of heroic feats of repackaging and .
• By dint of painstaking labor on the part of its developer, Bungie, it has been refined over three installments to the point where it delivers only pure, unadulterated gaming bliss.

News & Articles

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• James Gandolfini altered the way actors acted, TV was scripted
  By dint of his talent and sheer range of human reaction, Gandolfini changed the course of television. Along with David Chase, he made television a place where actors — the best actors — might want to work.
  June 21, 2013 - Detroit News

Quotes

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• Harrison Ford in Toronto Sun
  Isn't that a useless term,says Ford, mildly. "That's an outside-in view of what I do. I don't do iconography. I don't do movie star. I do story telling. And by dint of the fact that I've been around for so long, by dint of the fact that...
• Gordon Campbell in Globe and Mail
  Ultimately you have to deliver to the people. This would not have happened if the Congress had performed in the last 50 days. Earlier Babush and Save Goa had expressed support to the Congress. Even today there was chaos in the assembly. They dint... Manohar Parrikar http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manohar_Parrikar&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNF-ZRzvBsRZbnm7URi6nTzf3o03XA CNN-IBN http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.ibnlive.com/news/goa-govt-on-verge-of-collapse--reporters-blog/45634-3.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEDfy8Luk6S1lci_US8gLgn2sBjjA Jul 26, 2007 27829 36765 dint Canada's first nations, Métis and Inuit people should not be further marginalized by dint of this effort to unite Canada, which leaves them noticeably out of the picture," Mr. Campbell said. "It is high time we formally acknowledged...