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by design
Idioms and Phrases
On purpose, deliberately, as in Whether by luck or by design, his application was accepted . This term, originally put as on design , uses design in the sense of “plan.†[First half of 1600s]Example Sentences
Then again, what is one workday against the next to those who, by design, never feel like they leave the office?
"It's not by accident, it's by design," he says.
“An onslaught of executive actions have caused, some say by design, disruption and even chaos in widespread quarters of American society,†prompting many to seek emergency help in court, U.S.
Not surprisingly, and we can say by design, American worker wages and benefits like pensions all flatlined as wealth concentration and inequality soared beyond what was seen during America’s Gilded Age.
And I wouldn’t say that’s necessarily by design, but it’s not not by design.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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