of course

Idioms  

1. In the customary or expected order, naturally, as in The new minister did not, of course, fire the church secretary . This usage, first recorded in 1548, employs course in the sense of “ordinary procedure.”

2. Certainly, as in Of course I'll answer the phone , or Are you going to the meeting?—Of course . [Early 1800s] Also see matter of course .

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The museum aims to celebrate visual storytelling in all its forms: among them fine art, photography, comics, science-fiction illustrations and, of course, movies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Obama, of course, isn’t a ghost, and he has been talking up some of the same candidates others are likening to him.

From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026

And of course, they are getting more from the ECB when they take advantage of the deposit facility for their excess cash.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

The way they do everything, of course, as evidenced by the siblings’ meeting in their mother’s garage, attempting to resolve their seemingly irreconcilable differences about their mother’s fate and their parts in it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

There were, of course, fungi one should never eat.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman