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as a matter of course







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“Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like,” Fred Rogers once said, “if each of us offered, as a matter of course, just one kind word to another person.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 29, 2026

Strictly producers have a back-up plan in place if needed, but a spokesman for the programme tells us they do that every year as a matter of course.

From BBC Sep. 26, 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

The fact that I took it as a matter of course did not alter that any.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway




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