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The Through command is definitely worth knowing about. When you have an expression you'd like to apply more than one function to (not nested/chained, just one after the other), Through is your friend.
Let's say you have an expression, but you want to avoid using a holding variable (because you are nice and DRY) just so that you can use it as the target of more than one function. Through to the rescue:
Through[{f1,f2}][expr]
{f1[expr], f2[expr]}
Here, expression could be a long String, and f1 and f2 could be different Print formatting wrappers that send the String to different targets, such a your main notebook and the Messages console (in which case you'd just discard the output of Through).
Sometimes the List output of Through is what you want.