by choice
idiom
variants
or less commonly out of choice
: because one wants to
I live here by choice.
No one forced them to do it. They acted out of choice.
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And for families already affected by long Covid, absence after absence is prompting threats of investigations for truancy that have led to children being removed from school altogether, either by choice or upon the advice of the district.
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Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
Tapia, 46, a New Mexico native but Arizonan by choice, arrived in the Valley of the Sun 26 years ago and started working in the information technology industry.
—Paula Soria, AZCentral.com, 14 Oct. 2025
Burn has been the only defensive top-flight ever-present — with the rest of the back line rotated, sometimes by choice and sometimes out of necessity.
—Chris Waugh, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
That’s part of why this Dartmouth partnership is so critical during these times (especially when over 300K Black women have been removed from the workforce — not all by choice).
—Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 8 Oct. 2025
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Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
Tapia, 46, a New Mexico native but Arizonan by choice, arrived in the Valley of the Sun 26 years ago and started working in the information technology industry.
—Paula Soria, AZCentral.com, 14 Oct. 2025
Burn has been the only defensive top-flight ever-present — with the rest of the back line rotated, sometimes by choice and sometimes out of necessity.
—Chris Waugh, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
That’s part of why this Dartmouth partnership is so critical during these times (especially when over 300K Black women have been removed from the workforce — not all by choice).
—Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 8 Oct. 2025
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“By choice.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/by%20choice. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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