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Forest’s consistent line-up is also partly due to a drop-off in quality outside of the starting eleven, particularly in attack, although that may be by design.
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Steve Price, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Protocols are anti-monopolistic by design, allowing stakeholders to build coöperative systems that run side by side.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
That this all sounds a bit out of time and space is obviously a good hook, and clearly by design.
—Amiel Stanek, Bon Appetit Magazine, 4 Apr. 2025
Rodgers started at second base Thursday for the fifth time in seven games, perhaps by design.
—Chandler Rome, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
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Steve Price, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Protocols are anti-monopolistic by design, allowing stakeholders to build coöperative systems that run side by side.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
That this all sounds a bit out of time and space is obviously a good hook, and clearly by design.
—Amiel Stanek, Bon Appetit Magazine, 4 Apr. 2025
Rodgers started at second base Thursday for the fifth time in seven games, perhaps by design.
—Chandler Rome, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
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“By design.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/by%20design. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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