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View definitions for not by design

not by design

adverb as in inadvertently

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Rice has been targeted only four times in the preseason and has not made a catch, but Roman acknowledges that’s not by design.

Whether or not by design, the deal also proved Trump wrong when he recently suggested that only he would be able to free the most high-profile of the captive Americans, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, because of his friendship with the autocratic president of Russia.

Bara didn’t stay long, and the next resident turned out to be even more notorious, and not by design.

For his part, director Garland says any extratextual relationship between Dunst and Spaeny was a fortuitous byproduct and not by design.

This particular flight was not, by design, intended to make it all the way around the Earth.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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