How to Use business as usual in a Sentence

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  • Is that the new trend or will the season return to business as usual?
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 27 July 2024
  • This year will look more like business as usual, Nadella wrote.
    Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 10 May 2023
  • But its path forward lately looks more like business as usual.
    Nitasha Tiku, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
  • What might have looked risky elsewhere became business as usual here.
    Anthony Shore, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2025
  • This means more business as usual — and not just for prices, but also for the climate.
    Paasha Mahdavi, Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2026
  • April 8 will be business as usual for most — if not all — Arizona schools.
    Nick Sullivan, The Arizona Republic, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Even at home, constantly coming up with ideas for the show is just business as usual.
    Gil MacIas, People.com, 8 Dec. 2024
  • That said, there is a collective feeling that things will be far from business as usual.
    Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Now, Treasury will try to quickly get back to business as usual.
    Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 2 June 2023
  • In the meantime, things will be business as usual at the Newport plant.
    The Enquirer, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Though for the most part the schedule is very much business as usual, there are a few surprises.
    Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 28 Aug. 2023
  • But after 43 days on pause, things may not return to business as usual right away.
    NPR, 13 Nov. 2025
  • While it’s mostly been business as usual on late night, Stewart went out on a limb to talk about it.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Grande has not commented on the news and has kept her social media business as usual.
    Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 22 Aug. 2023
  • His actions in his first year made clear that business as usual was not going to be sufficient.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Yet the preliminary days of this past race week were anything but business as usual.
    Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 19 Nov. 2023
  • But declaring an end to the emergency doesn’t mean a return to business as usual.
    Marian Moser Jones, Fortune Well, 11 May 2023
  • Those were now disappearing, but that might be more about a return to business as usual.
    Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 4 May 2023
  • Just as airstrikes offer no shortcut to democracy, there is no safe path back to business as usual.
    Ali Vaez, Time, 15 Jan. 2026
  • But even then, once power is restored, a restaurant isn’t simply able to go back to business as usual.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 12 July 2024
  • Few artists could pull off such hairpin pivots, but for Semones, this is business as usual.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
  • After the mini-sojourn, the elephant went back to business as usual.
    Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 5 June 2025
  • But 99% of this city is business as usual, with brunches and beach walks and church and yoga classes.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2025
  • Vrabel greeted a few of his former players pregame, but mostly kept things business as usual.
    Devon Henderson, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • But most of the park was business as usual, with park visitors enjoying what Walt built.
    Jeff Gritchen, Oc Register, 17 July 2025
  • And within the company it’s been business as usual, with few signs that anyone was feeling the heat.
    semafor.com, 16 Feb. 2026
  • These companies aren’t content with a business as usual approach that sticks with the status quo.
    Kate Vitasek, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
  • With climate change making heat waves longer and more intense, business as usual is like watching a car crash in slow motion.
    Nikki Gamer, Baltimore Sun, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Overall, the morning felt very business as usual, despite the high-profile nature of the case.
    Claudia Rosenbaum, Vulture, 12 May 2025
  • But rather than returning to business as usual, Paige rebuilt.
    Perrie Samotin, Glamour, 23 Mar. 2026

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