by design
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“That was by design — to infuse the club and the community and grow that,” Reynolds said of he and his partner’s aims.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
Academic experts say the system’s secrecy is by design.
From Salon • Apr. 30, 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
This ambiguity is, at least partly, by design.
From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026
As if by design, they both stopped at the same spot, above the half-submerged, rooty clump of a fallen tree.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
