by the same token
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From token (“evidence, proof”) (obsolete sense).
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- (idiomatic) For a similar reason; in a similar manner; by virtue of the selfsame phenomenon, through its various aspects.
- Synonyms: similarly, likewise, along the lines
- 1886 June 25, Edward Orton, “Petroleum and Natural Gas as Found in Ohio”, in Science, volume 7, number 177, →JSTOR, page 561:
- The petroleum and gas of eastern Ohio, and by the same token, of western Pennsylvania and New York are unquestionably derived from the great shale formation of Devonian and subcarboniforous age that underlies this territory, and they are stored in sandstones overlying or interstratified with these shales."
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