as a rule
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Nonpublic investments like private equity are, as a rule, actively managed.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
He provides a blow-by-blow account of the days leading up to the ruling’s publication, including internal communications between the judges that, as a rule, are never shared with the public.
From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2025
Or to honesty, as a rule, though he insists that this account of his disastrous Venetian sojourn is genuine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
She also told relatives her son would injure himself while sleep-walking, but a medical expert said pre-school children did "not as a rule sleep-walk", Mr Lumley said.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2024
Not very expensive ones, as a rule, and not so lavishly as on this occasion; but it was not a bad system.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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