matter of course
Example Sentences
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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
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
As a practical matter, of course, that may be difficult, since anyone who will be named by a federal court or approved by the Senate may have too much integrity to pursue such baseless charges.
From Slate • Nov. 24, 2025
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
The pain itself was so much a matter of course that it had vanished out of the picture, as if by a process of cancellation.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
