matter of course
Example Sentences
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“Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like,” Fred Rogers once said, “if each of us offered, as a matter of course, just one kind word to another person.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
No matter, of course, because the team’s current roster also includes Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman and Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 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
Mr Latief added patients who had partial mastectomies should follow up with radiotherapy as a matter of course.
From BBC • Oct. 22, 2024
The judges then indicated that as a matter of course they would talk with me privately.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
