usually

adverb

usu·​al·​ly ˈyü-zhə-wə-lē 

-zhə-lē;

ˈyüzh-wə-lē,

ˈyüzh-lē

: according to the usual or ordinary course of things : most often : as a rule : customarily, ordinarily

a trip that usually takes an hour

a time of year when the weather is usually hot

On weekdays, I usually biked alone around San Francisco.

—Oliver Sacks

To establish a new epoch, geologists usually have to find clear evidence in the rock record of a massive, planet-altering shift.

—Gayathri Vaidyanathan

Celebrity outbursts are usually so outrageous that the average person can't really relate to them.

—Kyra Kyles

These chemicals usually do not kill the insects: a plant does not care whether predators die; it just wants them to go away and not come back.

—Mark P. Mattson

Synonyms

• commonly
• generally
• natch [slang]
• naturally
• normally
• ordinarily
• typically

Examples of usually in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

As long as there are no trades (which there usually are), each of the seven rounds starts with the team that finished with the worst record and culminates with the Super Bowl champs. —Phil Helsel, NBC News, 26 Apr. 2024

Sonoran-style tortillas are usually thin, heavy on the fat (ideally lard, but in this case, sunflower oil), and magnificently chewy. —Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 25 Apr. 2024

For example, some pollsters, such as the Trafalgar Group, usually underestimate support for Democrats, while other pollsters, like Center Street PAC, overestimate them. —G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 25 Apr. 2024

Only one of Apache’s generators burns coal — and even then only some of the time, switching between coal and gas, usually depending on the price of gas. —Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2024

To add and keep subscribers, Netflix must find the right mix of spending on big, flashy productions and licensing what is usually cheaper content. —Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2024

There’s usually an all-star jam at the end of the Rock Hall gala. —Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2024

On the other hand, people older than 50 are less likely to develop it, and toddlers and infants are usually immune. —Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2024

In the scene, which ended up on the poster, Blunt drives a camera car — the vehicle usually used to shoot another vehicle — while Gosling dangles from the camera crane mounted on its roof. —Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Apr. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above