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thanks to en · ADP

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. Because of; normally used with a positive connotation, though it can be used sarcastically.
    • Thanks to various kinds of endemic incompetence, humans show no prospect of ending all wars.
    • Thanks to the steadfast efforts of the volunteers, the town was well prepared when the flood hit.
    • Dmitry Khlebnikov, a passenger seated in the 10th row, later told journalists at Sheremetyevo airport that he was only alive thanks to the crew. 2019 May 6, Alec Luhn, “Moscow plane crash: hero steward died helping passengers escape as calls mount for Sukhoi Superjet 100 to be banned”, in Chris Evans, editor, The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 May 2019:
    • Amy was given a scholarship thanks to her excellent grades.
    • Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen. 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0056:

Translations (47)

ba арҡаһында (because of) · fr grâce à (because of) · sh zahvaljujući (because of) · be дзя́куючы (because of) · ca gràcies a (because of) · uk завдяки́ (because of) · cmn 由於 /由于 (because of) · ko 덕택에 (because of) · vi nhờ vào (because of) · arz بفضل (because of) · it grazie a (because of) · ro datorită (because of) · sh захваљујући (because of) · es gracias a (because of) · vi nhờ (because of) · cs díky (because of) · ia gratias a (because of) · es merced a (because of) · rsk дзекуюци (because of) · id berkat (because of) · kk арқасында (because of) · de dank (because of) · da takket være (because of) · cy diolch i (because of) · af danksy (because of) · ar بِفَضْل (because of) · kmr bi saya serê (because of) · pl dzięki (because of) · el χάρη σε (because of) · fi kiitos (because of) · hu köszönhetően (because of) · phn 𐤁𐤏𐤁𐤓 (because of) · pt graças a (because of) · gl grazas a (because of) · ru благодаря́ (because of) · he הודות ל־ (because of) · ro mulțumită (because of) · ja おかげで (because of) · is þökk sé (because of) · ar بِسَبَبِ (because of) · sv tack vare (because of) · id karena (because of) · fi ansiosta (because of) · nl dankzij (because of) · nl met dank aan (because of) · ur بَدَولَت (because of) · eo dank' al (because of)