true to form
idiom
: behaving or proceeding in the usual and expected way
Her latest movie is/runs true to form.
True to form, he was 20 minutes late for the meeting.
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Coolidge, true to form, never offered an explanation.
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Amity Shlaes, National Review, 12 June 2025
That’s because, true to form in AEW, Okada really wasn’t working all that hard.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
Will the Land-Dweller be true to form and come out with a quartz movement?
—Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 31 Mar. 2025
This arrangement of justice is true to form for You, which traffics in swooning gestures and cute, tidy outcomes for its protago-villain.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2025
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Amity Shlaes, National Review, 12 June 2025
That’s because, true to form in AEW, Okada really wasn’t working all that hard.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
Will the Land-Dweller be true to form and come out with a quartz movement?
—Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 31 Mar. 2025
This arrangement of justice is true to form for You, which traffics in swooning gestures and cute, tidy outcomes for its protago-villain.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for true to form
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“True to form.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/true%20to%20form. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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