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Starting Thursday, you may find it easier to place rapid-fire trades in stocks and options as a rule dating back to the dot-com era officially goes off the books.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

First of all, as a rule, Mark and I are not generally for throwing sandwiches.

From Slate • Nov. 7, 2025

She also told relatives her son would injure himself while sleep-walking, but a medical expert said pre-school children did "not as a rule sleep-walk", Mr Lumley said.

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2024

However, the causal principle of cause and effect remains closed to machines as a rule; they cannot address the question of why.

From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2024

The city impressed him, he said later, which was surprising because as a rule nothing impressed him, nothing moved him.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson




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