contact by the email vs contact through the email

Both phrases are commonly used, but 'contact by email' is more widely accepted and preferred. 'Contact through email' is also correct but less common. Both phrases convey the same meaning of communicating via email.

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contact by the email

This phrase is not correct in English. 'Contact by email' is the correct form without 'the'.

The correct phrase is 'contact by email' without the article 'the'. It means to communicate with someone using email as the medium.

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We stayed in contact by email.
In order to facilitate swift treatment of the case, contacts by emails or conference calls will in principle be favoured rather than meetings.
He only left an email contact.
None of the selected contacts have an email address associated with them.
A way to contact you (email or a webpage).
They're just numbered email contacts in my burner phone.
Details for direct contact (email and telephone or fax, the latter both with international prefix)
The Commission will promote the holding of contacts via email or conference calls or, at the specific request of the Member State concerned, organise meetings.
Click'Back 'to import more emails or contacts
Manage your email, contacts and schedule
Such attacks are beyond the direct control of a provider, due to the direct email contact between an attacker and a customer.
If you have the least problem, you can contact me by email, or if it's really urgent, come and meet me in my office.
Please contact us here, then we will send the e-Book you want to read directly to you as an attached file format to the email. Don't forget to include your email address, your name and the title of e-Book you want to download.
Dropdown-buttons with frequently mailed contacts for New and Forward. In the main window of & mailody; you can hold down the icon for New and Forward to display a submenu with the email addresses you mail frequently and email addresses of the selected message.
If you do not remember the email address that you entered when you registered, or if you do not remember your password after seeing your "Password Hint," contact our coworkership Management Team.
What about the original contact through the call centre, the email harassment?
The email client for the K Desktop Environment.
Filling out the Email Address field is mandatory.
The patches or chambers are held in contact by a suitable dressing for six hours.
3/ 24 Avoid contact by mouth.

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contact through the email

This phrase is correct but less common. It is used to indicate communication via email.

'Contact through email' is a valid phrase that means communicating with someone using email. It is less common than 'contact by email' but still conveys the same meaning.

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What about the original contact through the call centre, the email harassment?
I've been transmitting a mayday, but I can't make contact through the storm.
3. Member States agree that, if they make a contact through the Directory, they will notify the basic details, to be agreed by the Council, to the Director Manager, to allow effective monitoring of the usefulness of the Directory.
3. Member States agree that, if they make a contact through the directory, they will notify basic details relevant thereto, to be determined by the Council acting unanimously, to the EDU, to allow effective monitoring of the usefulness of the directory.
Nokia would no doubt get by, but the many small and medium-sized companies and local authorities would miss having contact through the Finnish cabinet when there was no longer a Finnish Commissioner at the table.
You have to teach the machine to sift through the emails, wire-tapped phones, bank transactions,
You have only contact through your headset with the operator on the ship.
We were put in contact through a mutual associate in Russia.
After a period of surveilling his activities, I first made contact through an intermediary.
And I can forward her some key contacts through Khyber house.
Because I made contact through a reliable intermediary.
Keep contact through Green and Taylor.
The email client for the K Desktop Environment.
Filling out the Email Address field is mandatory.
I have CM visual contact through port window.
We have found how beneficial it is to maintain contact through discussions, especially in difficult times.
In addition to this, it tracks eye contact through camera and simulates a public-speaking and job-interview experience.
Yes. Debra made contacts through her trips to asia for her firm.
One of these measures is to promote people-to-people contacts through academic exchanges between pupils, students and scientists.
The infection is mainly acquired through contact through broken skin with infectious blood (often through sharing contaminated equipment among injecting drug users).

Alternatives:

contact by email
reach out by email
get in touch via email
communicate by email
contact using email

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