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
  • 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
  • Of course, having the staff of a successful team plundered is business as usual in the NFL.
    Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 1 Feb. 2024
  • April 8 will be business as usual for most — if not all — Arizona schools.
    Nick Sullivan, The Arizona Republic, 22 Mar. 2024
  • All in all, the 76th Primetime Emmys was an awards show that would have been business as usual in past decades — which is good.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 15 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • This year will look more like business as usual, Nadella wrote.
    Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 10 May 2023
  • For now, Lezama just wants to return to business as usual.
    The Indianapolis Star, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Now, Treasury will try to quickly get back to business as usual.
    Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 2 June 2023
  • But according to Good, that’s just business as usual for the Greyhounds.
    Brett Friedlander, The Indianapolis Star, 4 June 2023
  • Even at home, constantly coming up with ideas for the show is just business as usual.
    Gil MacIas, People.com, 8 Dec. 2024
  • But this is the environment where this is business as usual in 1997.
    Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 6 Mar. 2025
  • But declaring an end to the emergency doesn’t mean a return to business as usual.
    Marian Moser Jones, Fortune Well, 11 May 2023
  • One, business as usual is easier for some of these guys.
    Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Overall, the morning felt very business as usual, despite the high-profile nature of the case.
    Claudia Rosenbaum, Vulture, 12 May 2025
  • 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
  • After the mini-sojourn, the elephant went back to business as usual.
    Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 5 June 2025
  • If Gaetz fails to vacate the speakership, the House is likely to move forward, business as usual.
    Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Grande has not commented on the news and has kept her social media business as usual.
    Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Why hasn’t Delta already gotten back to business as usual?
    Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 24 July 2024
  • 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
  • But most of the park was business as usual, with park visitors enjoying what Walt built.
    Jeff Gritchen, Oc Register, 17 July 2025
  • The Hurricanes benefited, but the rest of the league will carry on with business as usual.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Just as airstrikes offer no shortcut to democracy, there is no safe path back to business as usual.
    Ali Vaez, Time, 15 Jan. 2026
  • This was business as usual, in other words.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2026
  • But in ways, this is business as usual in Minnesota.
    Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Few artists could pull off such hairpin pivots, but for Semones, this is business as usual.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
  • The stores remain open and are doing business as usual.
    Evan Clark, Footwear News, 17 Nov. 2025

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