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as a rule

adv

Definitions

  1. In general

    In general; most often.

    • We go fishing every Sunday as a rule, but today the lake is frozen.
    • His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;[…].
    • As a rule, single sentences should not be written or printed as paragraphs. An exception may be made of sentences of transition, indicating the relation between the parts of an exposition or argument.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for as a rule. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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