вместе с тем

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[AdvP; Invar; usu. sent adv (occas. parenth; usu. used after Conj "и", "но", "но и"; fixed WO]

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⇒ in addition to or along with what has been stated (a contrast may be implied):

- at the same time;

- [in limited contexts] at once;

- also;

- [only when a contrast is implied](and) yet.

     ♦ На остальных же, бывших в распивочной, не исключая и хозяина, чиновник смотрел как-то привычно и даже со скукой, а вместе с тем и с оттенком некоторого высокомерного пренебрежения... (Достоевский 3). The clerk was regarding the other people in the bar, including the proprietor, with a kind of familiarity and even boredom, and at the same time with a hint of haughty disdain... (За).

     ♦ Во всякой книге предисловие есть первая и вместе с тем последняя вещь... (Лермонтов 1). The foreword is at once the first and the last thing in any book... (1b).

     ♦ Ленин... писал: Сталин капризен. Но вместе с тем он терпелив, настойчив и задуманное всегда доводит до конца (Рыбаков 2). Lenin had written that Stalin was capricious. But he was also patient and persistent, and he always carried his intentions through to the end (2a).