thanks to
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.42 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
prep
Because of; normally used with a positive connotation, though it can be used sarcastically.
Example Sentences
- "Amy was given a scholarship thanks to her excellent grades."
- "Thanks to the steadfast efforts of the volunteers, the town was well prepared when the flood hit."
- "Thanks to various kinds of endemic incompetence, humans show no prospect of ending all wars."
- "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."
- "Dmitry Khlebnikov, a passenger seated in the 10th row, later told journalists at Sheremetyevo airport that he was only alive thanks to the crew."