How to Use by design in a Sentence

by design

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• Part of that seems to be by design.
  — Amy Wallace, Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2026
• And was out of the frame, by design.
  — Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 24 Oct. 2025
• Oh, and that might be by design.
  — New Atlas, 16 Dec. 2025
• Friedle said that was by design.
  — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Jan. 2026
• If that sounds like a low bar, that’s by design.
  — Diana Hubbell, Popular Science, 1 Oct. 2025
• This was by design, Bonds has claimed.
  — Jeremy Collins, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
• There were a lot of unknowns in the movie by design.
  — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 24 Jan. 2026
• Bale is a little dull here, but by design.
  — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2026
• But six-seven might have been doomed by design.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
• That also seems to be by design.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
• Some of it was by design and some of it just kind of happened.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Sep. 2023
• This method of chance creation is not by chance, but by design.
  — Mark Carey, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2026
• The last wildlife encounter of the trip was, as if by design, the best.
  — Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 4 Jan. 2025
• This new spinoff is more of the same, and that is entirely by design.
  — Calum Marsh, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• But the legal process is, by design, a slow and winding one.
  — Susan Page, USA Today, 17 Jan. 2026
• But the visuals are still hard to miss, and that’s by design.
  — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2024
• Respect must be paid to the writers, who have that all in mind by design.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 13 May 2023
• That’s partly by design, though.
  — Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
• If this looked like a college passing game at times, that's by design.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Sep. 2023
• When there's too much rain, by design, sewage overflows into creeks and rivers.
  — Laura Geller, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2025
• Those first years were scrappy, partly by design.
  — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 28 Sep. 2025
• All the tour’s events will have consequences, by design.
  — Brody Miller, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
• The opening looks were austere by design.
  — ABC News, 9 Mar. 2026
• McNeeley had the ball in his hands a lot, and that was by design.
  — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 18 July 2026
• But as Brian knows well, the winter sports by design are ice and snow.
  — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 5 Feb. 2026
• Their only weak spot is guarding tight ends, and that is mostly by design.
  — Matt Modi, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
• Airlifts are, by design, complex and rapid.
  — Newsweek Editors, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2025
• My absence from many of my photographs was, in part, by design.
  — Jason Parham, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• What keeps Wikipedia trustworthy is the same thing that keeps it poor by design.
  — Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
• The world’s only flightless parrot species was once thought to be doomed by design.
  — ABC News, 23 Feb. 2026