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Definition

therefore (for that reason; or what follows is so because of what was just said)

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Increase law enforcement reduced the supply of the drug and thus increased the cost, but the improvement was partially offset when the increased cost encouraged more supply.

thus = therefore (for that reason)

The price of gasoline increased fifty cents this year, thus costing the average driver an additional $250.

thus = therefore (for that reason)

He was now too weak even to hunt effectively and thus grew weaker still, sliding closer and closer toward starvation.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

thus = therefore (for that reason)

Jem said he would take me. Thus began our longest journey together.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

thus = therefore (for that reason)

...then we have a margin of nearly two weeks. Thus, in order to be quite safe, we must leave here on 17th at latest.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

thus = therefore (for that reason)

And if the facts say otherwise then the facts must be altered. Thus history is continuously rewritten.
George Orwell -- 1984

thus = therefore (for that reason)

I'm one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.
Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451

thus = therefore (for that reason)

He had not got the conch and thus spoke against the rules; but nobody minded.
William Golding -- Lord of the Flies

thus = therefore (for that reason)

Only the language of civilized people may be spoken, thus no German.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

thus = therefore (for that reason)

He is not the first that I have seen thus; but we grew up together and that always makes it a bit different.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

thus = in that way

thus = in that way

It was an elegant deception, a mental pirouette. The toe was not broken because it was not breakable. Only an X-ray could
prove otherwise. Thus, the X-ray would break my toe.
Tara Westover -- Educated

thus = therefore (for that reason)

Within a few days from the receipt of Edmund's letter, Fanny had one from her aunt, beginning thus— "My Dear Fanny,—I take up my pen to communicate some very alarming intelligence, which I make no doubt will give you much concern".
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park

thus = in this way

Often, Charlie's mother and father would come in as well, and stand by the door, listening to the stories that the old people told; and thus, for perhaps half an hour every night, this room would become a happy place, and the whole family would forget that it was hungry and poor.
Roald Dahl -- Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

thus = therefore (for that reason)

Thus the Count had knowledge of the persons who could arrange this service.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

thus = therefore (for that reason)

Our only comfort is the steady breathing of our comrades asleep, and thus we wait for the morning.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

thus = in that way

Thus, in a difficulty he has to seek resource in habit.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

thus = therefore (for that reason)

A cold shiver ran through me to find my worst fears thus endorsed.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

thus = in that way

thus = in this way

The intimacy thus begun between them was a material advantage to each.
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park

thus = in that way

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