as a matter of course
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Electronic warfare disrupts communications and navigation as a matter of course.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 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
Mr Latief added patients who had partial mastectomies should follow up with radiotherapy as a matter of course.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2024
As we were close to Camilla then, I would have stopped as a matter of course, only Miss Havisham wouldn’t stop.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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