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
No matter, of course, because the team’s current roster also includes Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman and Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2025
The council said six bins were provided as a matter of course - paper, plastics, cans, glass, cardboard and food - alongside non-recyclable waste.
From BBC • Aug. 25, 2024
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
But it did matter, of course, which is why I kept pounding at our cinder-block walls and why the questions had floated beneath the surface for a week.
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
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