as a rule
Example Sentences
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Reporters are not police informants, we don't as a rule pass on information.
From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026
He provides a blow-by-blow account of the days leading up to the ruling’s publication, including internal communications between the judges that, as a rule, are never shared with the public.
From Slate • Nov. 20, 2025
Or to honesty, as a rule, though he insists that this account of his disastrous Venetian sojourn is genuine.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
Most mammals and humans have a double set of chromosomes -- and as a rule, plants do, too: one set comes from the father, the other from the mother.
From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2024
North of the Rio Grande the picture is different: as a rule, the possibility of such influences is ignored when not denied.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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