standard operating procedure
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His memorandum wasn’t an aberration but standard operating procedure.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
Though Bass omitted the bit about six months being standard operating procedure, which would have at least offered some context.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2025
But during the next several years, such bombing became standard operating procedure.
From Salon • Sep. 8, 2025
It has subsequently emerged arresting officer Bryan Gillis had failed to activate his bodycam video before Scheffler was stopped, handcuffed and arrested, despite it being standard operating procedure.
From BBC • May 21, 2024
Therefore he was not technically a Hunt prisoner, and so was not bound by the institution’s standard operating procedure.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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