matter of course
Example Sentences
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If storm delays do become more common, says Andrew Charlton, then aircraft will have to load more fuel as a matter of course, in case there is trouble brewing ahead.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
This doesn’t mean that interest rates don’t matter, of course.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
“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
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
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
