Meanings of using the fact in English

Everybody I ever met seems to be doing it, and using the fact as an excuse for blackmail.

A paper in Nano Letters suggests an alternate way to turn the ocean into power: using the fact that it's salty.

Ameriprise and other smaller brokerage firms have also lured advisers using the fact that they did not need government bailouts during the 2008 financial crisis.

A doctor in Germany had been using the fact that the pope possessed an organ donors' card from a medical association to advocate the practice.

Ten years from now Lori's still using the fact that she was sleeping with a senior officer as leverage, to find out about the arrest.