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Luke Wright has stepped down as selector of his own accord and the advertisement to replace his £115k-a-year role is in the public domain.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

As for Saxon’s claims about being told to sleep in the bare concrete dwelling, Cherkasky insisted that the worker had done so of his own accord.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 3, 2026

It loses “alignment,” meaning you can’t rely on it to act in accord with its designers’ intentions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026

“You have tons of people doing the same thing and being on the same accord for that one athlete,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026

And she hardly had to do that—of their own accord, they had moved apart and turned away, and now both were discreetly straightening their clothes.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan