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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New York native and nomad by choice—Emily is a marketing & PR pro, now the founder of the award-winning R Public Relations, New York.
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Emily Reynolds Bergh, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
Seventy percent of respondents say that feeling overwhelmed by choice is the thing that prompts them to keep going back to old shows.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
If enough artists start looking elsewhere, America could become a cultural blind spot — by choice, not by chance.
—Alex Ashley, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2025
This is a show about women who are inextricably bound together, by circumstance but also by choice.
—Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025
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Emily Reynolds Bergh, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
Seventy percent of respondents say that feeling overwhelmed by choice is the thing that prompts them to keep going back to old shows.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
If enough artists start looking elsewhere, America could become a cultural blind spot — by choice, not by chance.
—Alex Ashley, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2025
This is a show about women who are inextricably bound together, by circumstance but also by choice.
—Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025
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“By choice.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/by%20choice. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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