matter of course
Example Sentences
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Which brings me to my optimistic long-term prediction: The world will become a safer place once leaders, as a matter of course, feed their strategic ambitions and calculations through an LLM before acting on them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
Even the sleepiest off-season Sunday can suddenly erupt into the latest melodramatic controversy, with rumours, counter-rumours and abrupt U-turns a matter of course.
From BBC • Aug. 10, 2025
It’s so rare because failure — by pitchers as well as batters — is expected as a matter of course.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2025
And that’s how the pardon power operated in early American history: Prosecutors and judges routinely recommended clemency in unjust cases, which presidents granted as a matter of course.
From Slate • Dec. 2, 2024
He had always known so many things, and she had accepted that as a matter of course.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
