How to Use by design in a Sentence

by design

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  • What keeps Wikipedia trustworthy is the same thing that keeps it poor by design.
    — Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Models paraphrase and summarize by design, so there's often no exact string for filters to catch.
    — Ofer Klein, Forbes.com, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Attribution gets messy by design, since the entry point is rarely a deliberate search.
    — Faustino Júnior, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Integrity by design provides the foundation for systems that can be trusted, defended and validated at every step.
    — Wendy Chin, Forbes.com, 23 Feb. 2026
  • This compute-to-data model ensures privacy by design, rather than contractual assurances.
    — Dr. Ashish Dibouliya, Forbes.com, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Its newest addition—part of hotelier Ian Schrager’s Edition chain—is a decidedly more subdued affair, and that’s by design.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 July 2026
  • Lead the world in artificial intelligence, quantum computing and post-quantum cryptography while ensuring these technologies are secure by design.
    — Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
  • The way to achieve it is through AI integrity by design, meaning systems built from the ground up to be resilient, defensible and verifiable, rather than patched after vulnerabilities emerge.
    — Wendy Chin, Forbes.com, 23 Feb. 2026
  • By validating transactions closer to where they’re created, response times improve, false positives drop and risks are stopped before reaching core systems, shifting fraud control from reactive to preventive by design.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The budget is moving decisively, and whether intelligence accumulates within the organization or on a vendor's platform is an architectural decision most enterprises make by default rather than by design.
    — Mukhtar Ahmad, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • The platform's tokenized commodities, backed by Argentine energy and agricultural contracts, are minted when a contract is signed and burned when the commodity is delivered, with zero transfer activity by design.
    — Aaron Stanley, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Unlike conventional porous carbons, which interact only weakly with polysulfides, COFs possess periodically arranged pores whose dimensions, chemical environments, and electronic characteristics can be programmed by design.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 4 July 2026

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