All 12 Uses
thus
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Flags of Our Fathers
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- In 1917, even though they were not U.S. citizens and thus exempt from military service, a majority of young Pima men waived this right and enlisted to fight in France.†
Chpt 2.
- Thus, if a recruit should faint from exhaustion during a forced march, the rest of his unit is trained to run in circles around his body until he comes to.†
Chpt 2.
- With "Death Before Dishonor" tattooed on his arm, he had led eight hundred of his comrades in a nonstop seventy-two-hour firefight in October against several thousand Japanese, winning the fight that helped change the course of the battle and thus the war.†
Chpt 3.
- Thus the island was part of a seamless sacred realm that had not been desecrated by an invader's foot for four thousand years.†
Chpt 6.
- Thus, there were many more than General Smith and his aerial spotters could see from their photographs.†
Chpt 6. *
- Thus there was little evidence of the invasion's impact, a detriment to morale.†
Chpt 7.
- Thus, for some Marines who hours earlier had prayed for night, it was now the dawn that proved a blessing.†
Chpt 8.
- But not in vain: Their charge would mark the beginning of the end for "impregnable" Suribachi—and thus for Iwo Jima itself as a factor in the war.†
Chpt 9.
- Thus, the hopeful Times headline of Friday, February 23—MARINES TAKE SURIBACHI, CHIEF POINT ON IWO—was not accompanied by any photos of the seizure.†
Chpt 12.
- Thus, even though the rocky northern end of the island would prove to be the costliest part of the battle, it was natural for the reader to assume that once Mount Suribachi, the high point on the island, was taken, the battle would quickly end.†
Chpt 12.
- Thus it became unimportant.†
Chpt 14.
- Thus each man was given to understand that if he backed out, he would ruin the entire movie.†
Chpt 18.
Definitions:
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(1)
(thus as in: Thus it was necessary.) therefore (for that reason; or what follows is so because of what was just said)
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(2)
(thus as in: betrayed her thus) in the way mentioned or shown
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) The expression, thus far means so far or up until now.