by design
Example Sentences
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The role’s ambiguity, offering no hint of seniority or rank, is by design.
From MarketWatch • May 9, 2026
Academic experts say the system’s secrecy is by design.
From Salon • Apr. 30, 2026
It’s not by design — I like playing with people.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026
But the hope that games might one day absorb humanity’s deepest conflicts underestimates how much those conflicts depend on stakes that games, by design, cannot replicate.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
He had come to this tower-keep by chance, and yet the chance was all design; or he had come by design and yet all the design had merely chanced to come about.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
