as in so
for this or that reason
it's snowing hard; therefore I think we should stay home
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Recent Examples of therefore
The comparison between America and the Netherlands is therefore not simply about capitalism versus socialism.
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Steven Delco,
Hartford Courant,
29 June 2026
The winners in the next phase of legal AI may therefore look different from the winners in the first phase.
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Joseph Andrew,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2026
Isaac and his wife, filmmaker Elvira Lind, arrived in Paris the day before and therefore caught just the tail end of a record heat wave across Europe.
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Joelle Diderich,
Footwear News,
28 June 2026
One of Nietzsche’s many great and provocative insights in On the Genealogy of Morals is that pain isn’t objective or proportional to external conditions, but rather a matter of perspective and therefore interpretation.
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Thomas Chatterton Williams,
The Atlantic,
28 June 2026
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Steven Delco,
Hartford Courant,
29 June 2026
The winners in the next phase of legal AI may therefore look different from the winners in the first phase.
—
Joseph Andrew,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2026
Isaac and his wife, filmmaker Elvira Lind, arrived in Paris the day before and therefore caught just the tail end of a record heat wave across Europe.
—
Joelle Diderich,
Footwear News,
28 June 2026
One of Nietzsche’s many great and provocative insights in On the Genealogy of Morals is that pain isn’t objective or proportional to external conditions, but rather a matter of perspective and therefore interpretation.
—
Thomas Chatterton Williams,
The Atlantic,
28 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for therefore
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Valentine also testified that the FDA encourages infant formula companies to send in all adverse event reports and that nothing prevented Mead Johnson from doing so.
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The World Cup brings fans from around the world together and on game day, so does public transportation.
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The episode concludes with Rhaenyra looking completely mortified at the idea of having to explain to Alicent what happened, since Alicent had set Rhaenyra up to take King’s Landing and thus the Iron Throne from Alicent’s son, Aegon (Tom Glynn-Carney) — but hadn’t expected this.
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This is because the infrastructure of the city traps in all of the heat that built up during the day, thus preventing a normal nocturnal cooldown seen in non-urban settings.
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Finally, niacinamide supports skin barrier function and, consequently, improves hydration levels.
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And that means that there are consequently are a lot of potential insiders.
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For one thing, beetle colonies span all life stages and hence require complex containment; superworm cleaning only requires the larval stage, which lasts 10–12 weeks compared to just five to seven weeks for the beetles.
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Amazon Leo is the company's broadband megaconstellation in low Earth orbit (hence the name), which will eventually consist of about 3,200 satellites.
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“Therefore.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/therefore. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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