Word: Dint
Source: Everything They Had: Sports Writing from David Halberstam
How it was used: " He has had very good players, by dint of George Steinbrenner's passion to win, and his players are by and large, mature, unusually self-reliant men (especially when calibrated on the Richter Scale of contemporary athletic maturity..
Definition: 1. archaic 2. force power (n., transitive verb)
My sentence: I knew that I should not talk back to my teacher, by dint of her failing me.
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