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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Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.
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Penny Weaver, Arkansas Online, 18 Mar. 2026
Kent, in his letter to Trump, indirectly blamed his wife’s death on Israel too.
—Josh Meyer, USA Today, 17 Mar. 2026
Notably, social media sites ranging from LinkedIn to TikTok benefit from the fake ads both directly and indirectly.
—Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
There are almost 184,000 jobs that indirectly support the aerospace industry in Colorado.
—Brian Sherrod, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2026
If a specific kind of court can make more money—either directly via sponsorship or indirectly via fan enjoyment—teams and conferences are likely to consider it.
—Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 13 Mar. 2026
The deputy chief magistrate, Tan Ikram, ordered that Partey is not to contact directly or indirectly this new complainant, in line with the bail conditions he was served previously.
—James McNicholas, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
The bill defines such investors as any that directly or indirectly own 350 or more single-family homes.
—Charlotte Kramon, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2026
Payton and Paton, both, have been indirectly saying as much for a calendar year.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 10 Mar. 2026
Penny Weaver, Arkansas Online, 18 Mar. 2026
Kent, in his letter to Trump, indirectly blamed his wife’s death on Israel too.
—Josh Meyer, USA Today, 17 Mar. 2026
Notably, social media sites ranging from LinkedIn to TikTok benefit from the fake ads both directly and indirectly.
—Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
There are almost 184,000 jobs that indirectly support the aerospace industry in Colorado.
—Brian Sherrod, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2026
If a specific kind of court can make more money—either directly via sponsorship or indirectly via fan enjoyment—teams and conferences are likely to consider it.
—Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 13 Mar. 2026
The deputy chief magistrate, Tan Ikram, ordered that Partey is not to contact directly or indirectly this new complainant, in line with the bail conditions he was served previously.
—James McNicholas, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
The bill defines such investors as any that directly or indirectly own 350 or more single-family homes.
—Charlotte Kramon, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2026
Payton and Paton, both, have been indirectly saying as much for a calendar year.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 10 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for indirectly
obliquely
Adverb
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The new president trod carefully, acknowledging only obliquely the legal end of the transatlantic slave trade in 1808.—
Regina E. Mason,
The Atlantic,
7 Mar. 2026
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Official Hollywood posters, especially in the Reagan years, were spurned in favor of surreal homegrown imagery, most of it only obliquely connected to the movies in question.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
16 Feb. 2026
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“Indirectly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indirectly. Accessed 20 Mar. 2026.
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