customarily

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Recent Examples of customarily This doesn’t seem to be a well-rounded perspective on what a therapist customarily does. Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025 When Indiana sets up for a period of one-on-one competition, customarily splitting the roster into red and white teams, the scoring is simple. Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 11 July 2025 Keep in mind that Texas county courthouses are customarily open to the public during business hours, but are often locked on the weekends, when many road trippers tend to travel. Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025 After the vote, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, forced Senate clerks to read the entire 940-page bill rather than customarily waiving that chore. Bart Jansen, USA Today, 30 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for customarily
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Adverb
  • Panouses regularly fields inquiries from investors, scammers and people in need, all trying to reach his clients.
    Safiyah Riddle, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Cumberland Falls is one of only two places in the world that regularly produces moonbows — a night-time rainbow created by moonlight refracting through water droplets.
    Ray Padilla, Louisville Courier Journal, 6 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Similar complaints were made in the 1990s and 2000s building boom that led to a series of functional stadia springing up across the UK, usually complete with bare breeze block walls that gave a pre-match pint on the concourse all the appeal of an evening spent down the local multi-story car park.
    Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • If you’re tempted, act fast because Amazon prices like this usually won't hang around.
    Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • The group routinely calls for removing books at public schools and played a role in Scottsdale Unified School District's decision to pull 16 books from its library shelves in February.
    Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Between February and May, when Dudek’s tenure ended, his erratic rhetoric and decisions routinely made front-page news.
    Eli Hager, ProPublica, 8 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • This guy lies, habitually lies.
    NBC news, NBC news, 17 Aug. 2025
  • As a veteran superstar habitually forcing her way into MVP races, Thomas has plenty of reasons to smile.
    Shane Young, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • Standard mortgage documents commonly include an occupancy clause that requires the borrower to use the property as their principal residence for at least a year.
    Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Bespoke clothing is typically made with a greater level of handwork, imparting a nearly imperceptible quality that can’t be replicated with a sewing machine more commonly used on MTM.
    Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 6 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Butler never imagined Zimmerer – a typically non-spontaneous person – would drop everything to book a flight and travel more than 1,500 miles from Nebraska to be there.
    Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Sandy soils, on the other hand, drain faster and are typically tested once every 2 to 3 years.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Brake gently as needed - Brake normally if the vehicle has anti-lock brakes and pump brakes gently if in an older vehicle.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Standing firm over Newcastle’s approaches for Jorgen Strand Larsen was an impressive show of nerve in an industry where players and buying clubs normally get their way.
    Steve Madeley, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • In fact, the tools available to the company that would ordinarily discourage activism are in this situation more of poison chalice.
    Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 30 Aug. 2025
  • In August, Martin sent James a letter calling for her resignation, leapfrogging multiple steps federal prosecutors ordinarily undertake to determine whether the subject of an investigation engaged in criminal activity.
    Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2025

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