as a rule
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"Always ask, would you put the same thing in an email?" he says, as a rule of thumb.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
First of all, as a rule, Mark and I are not generally for throwing sandwiches.
From Slate ● Nov. 7, 2025
Or to honesty, as a rule, though he insists that this account of his disastrous Venetian sojourn is genuine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
That is a vaudevillian death sentence: as a rule, one never follows animal acts or children or child-like Muppets.
From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2024
In other matters they were, as a rule, generous and not greedy, but contented and moderate, so that estates, farms, workshops, and small trades tended to remain unchanged for generations.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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