by design
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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
As its organizers explained to the Guardian, this is mostly by design.
From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026
This ambiguity is, at least partly, by design.
From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026
First, by design, annuities reallocate money from those who die early to those who live forever.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 20, 2026
The losses, by design, were no big deal; the losses were part of the plan.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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