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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Gen Z are increasingly becoming NEETs by choice—not in employment, education, or training
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Trump proposed excluding tips from federal taxes.
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Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 21 June 2024
Once the system was trained, the participant could use it to participate in conversations and switch languages by choice.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 May 2024
In both Melanie and Olivia, Sugar sees kindred, lonely by choice spirits.
—Andy Andersen, Vulture, 6 Apr. 2024
Was this by choice, inertia, tradition or a communication breakdown?
—Tom Condon, Hartford Courant, 2 Mar. 2024
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Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 21 June 2024
Once the system was trained, the participant could use it to participate in conversations and switch languages by choice.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 May 2024
In both Melanie and Olivia, Sugar sees kindred, lonely by choice spirits.
—Andy Andersen, Vulture, 6 Apr. 2024
Was this by choice, inertia, tradition or a communication breakdown?
—Tom Condon, Hartford Courant, 2 Mar. 2024
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“By choice.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/by%20choice. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.
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