Your English writing platform
Discover LudwigSuggestions(1)
The phrase "a more indirect method" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing approaches or techniques that are less straightforward or direct in nature.
Example: "In this study, we opted for a more indirect method to gather data, allowing participants to express their thoughts more freely."
Alternatives: "a less direct approach" or "a more subtle technique".
Exact(1)
A more indirect method to detect viruses is to look for virally induced changes to cell morphology.
Similar(59)
A program created to monitor the overall health status of a colony population often utilizes more indirect methods.
If the direct method is not your style, you might want to try more indirect methods like sending him a note.
Therefore, more indirect methods of targeting NF-κB might provide a safer pharmacological profile.
Tracey Walsh, employment initiatives manager at Golden Gates Housing Trust in Warrington, has also found that the best way to reach young people is knocking on their door, rather than more indirect methods.
The modern parallel is with attempts to prop up the overall level of the stock market, or indeed the bond market, through government purchases (or more indirect methods).
Once this includes BitTorent, which is apparently coming soon, PeerMind's lists will be a much more interesting indicator of consumer demand for media than other top lists determined by more indirect methods.
It can also be based on more indirect methods where high- and low-level descriptors are used together.
More indirect methods of disrupting DNA replication target the topoisomerases, using families of compounds such as adriamycin and doxorubicin.
More indirect methods are observing the depopulation of the excited state via fluorescence (i.e. fluorescence spectroscopy) or by collisional de-excitation.
School-based interventions that used direct methods to engage parents (e.g. parental education sessions, workshops) were more likely to report positive results compared with those studies that used more indirect methods (e.g. educational information materials, home work assignments).
Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.
Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com