All 10 Uses

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The Hunt for Red October
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For others he did not, and thus Ramius found himself destined never to have his own admiral's flag.†
Chpt 3.
Thus a chief engineer on a Soviet naval vessel could outrank his commanding officer and still be his subordinate.†
Chpt 3. *
The Los Angeles thus found herself navigating completely blind.†
Chpt 5.
He thus had access to political and military intelligence of the highest order.†
Chpt 6.
Thus, though the Dallas was now running below the thermocline at over thirty knots and making as much noise as she was capable of, she would still be difficult to detect with surface sonar.†
Chpt 7.
Thus they cannot be armed until the missile reaches its full programmed speed.†
Chpt 9.
Thus while SOSUS was designed to neutralize a huge, fixed expanse of sea, deep-basin strategy was founded on mobility, a moving zone of protection for the vital North Atlantic shipping.†
Chpt 10.
The sonobuoys had limited electrical power and thus limited range.†
Chpt 10.
Thus the technology used to localize a target first detected by SOSUS, or to "delouse" a discrete piece of ocean preparatory to the passage of a convoy, simply was not up to a random search of the deep ocean.†
Chpt 10.
The reason was that a radar beam could be detected at several times the distance at which it generated a return signal to its transmitter and could thus tell an enemy more than it told its operators.†
Chpt 10.

Definitions:

(1) (thus as in: Thus it was necessary.)
therefore (for that reason; or what follows is so because of what was just said)
(2) (thus as in: betrayed her thus)
in the way mentioned or shown
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
The expression, thus far means so far or up until now.