not by design
Example Sentences
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Rice has been targeted only four times in the preseason and has not made a catch, but Roman acknowledges that’s not by design.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2024
This particular flight was not, by design, intended to make it all the way around the Earth.
From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2024
Blackswan's atypical line-up was not by design initially and reflects the trajectory of the development of K-pop.
From BBC • Aug. 26, 2023
“It’s not by design that we don’t take guys here, that’s not it,” Carroll said.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 2023
It is not to be denied that such reasoning is sometimes right, but it is to be remembered that it is right by accident, not by design.
From A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning by Holyoake, George Jacob
