CUSTOMARILY Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

customarily

adverb

Definition of customarily

as in regularly

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Recent Examples of customarily The festival, which is organized by West German Radio and has been running in its current form since 1969, favors experimental idioms that customarily avoid obvious political messaging or clear cultural signposts. — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 18 May 2026 Denial letters customarily do not give cause. — Nicole Acevedo, NBC news, 18 May 2026 His new film promises to be another provocative piece of social realism in the director’s customarily rigorous style. — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2026 The high court customarily holds on to decisions for a month to allow time for the losing side to request another hearing. — Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 8 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for customarily

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Haskins regularly performed music, and participated in two USO tours for troops in Kosovo, Macedonia, and Bosnia in 2000, and again in 2002 in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Oman, and Kyrgyzstan.

— Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2026
But when drought struck Oklahoma and surrounding states, as drought regularly did, the topsoil dried out and blew away.

— Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of regularly

Adverb

Pakistan routinely accuses Kabul of allowing militants, particularly the Pakistani Taliban, to operate from Afghan territory and launch attacks across the border.

— MUNIR AHMED, Arkansas Online, 26 Sep. 2026
Organizations routinely approve substantial investments in security technology, but those tools do not create outcomes alone.

— David Etue, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of routinely

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Editors should stay vigilant about their reporters’ sourcing and be wary if the same sources are used too habitually.

— Mike Semel, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Suddenly, many people who had not habitually drunk milk were consuming it regularly, including not only some Americans but also people overseas.

— Hilary Smith, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of habitually

Adverb

This bacterium causes deadly botulism and is commonly found in both ingredients.

— Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2026
Burners and combustion chambers are already commonly manufactured with the technology, meaning the injection system could potentially be integrated directly into those components.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of commonly

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These behaviors were rarely seen in the absence of cocaine, illustrating how a normally varied set of actions can become restricted to a persistent behavioral pattern, according to a press release.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026
That year, the government released its emergency rice reserves for the first time since the reserve system was created in 1995, something that was normally kept for natural disasters.

— Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of normally

Adverb

The swells generated by the hurricanes don’t appear to be tracking at an angle that ordinarily would have a significant impact on Southern California beaches, said Sam Zuber, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in San Diego.

— Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026
Interest-rate increases ordinarily support a country's currency, push up its bond yields, and put pressure on its stock market.

— Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2026

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