as a 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
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
Mr Latief added patients who had partial mastectomies should follow up with radiotherapy as a matter of course.
From BBC • Oct. 22, 2024
These are “de novo” mutations that pop up randomly; most are far too rare to be worth testing for prenatally as a matter of course.
From Slate • Jan. 28, 2024
It was a fine morning; many people around him were troubled, he knew, but that was a part of the adult world which he accepted as a matter of course.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
