by design
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The role’s ambiguity, offering no hint of seniority or rank, is by design.
From MarketWatch • May 9, 2026
It’s not by design — I like playing with people.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026
But the hope that games might one day absorb humanity’s deepest conflicts underestimates how much those conflicts depend on stakes that games, by design, cannot replicate.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
As its organizers explained to the Guardian, this is mostly by design.
From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026
Some would-be architects of our future look toward a time when it will be possible to alter the human germ plasm by design.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
