as a matter of course
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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
And that’s how the pardon power operated in early American history: Prosecutors and judges routinely recommended clemency in unjust cases, which presidents granted as a matter of course.
From Slate ● Dec. 2, 2024
Despite council members’ frustration at being left out of the process, Acadia had met the city’s criteria and was approved as a matter of course.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2023
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
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