as a matter of course
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Which brings me to my optimistic long-term prediction: The world will become a safer place once leaders, as a matter of course, feed their strategic ambitions and calculations through an LLM before acting on them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
Unlike the PET file, Downing Street would not receive the results of such a process as a matter of course, even in an extremely high-profile appointment.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2025
It’s so rare because failure — by pitchers as well as batters — is expected as a matter of course.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2025
These are “de novo” mutations that pop up randomly; most are far too rare to be worth testing for prenatally as a matter of course.
From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2024
They don’t dare ask the price, but worry themselves dreadfully beforehand about it; but the others, for whom it is not important, they settle the price first as a matter of course.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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