customarily

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Recent Examples of customarily Major medical organizations, which customarily eschew delving into politics, are finding themselves increasingly at odds with the Trump administration as health policy decisions are being advanced without the backing of scientific consensus. Joseph Choi, The Hill, 26 Sep. 2025 We’re not customarily taught to spot diet culture or to call it out. Mallary Tenore Tarpley, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025 There was language to distinguish tips from other sorts of income and a limitation to occupations that had customarily and regularly received tips prior to December 31, 2024. Peter J Reilly, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025 These are customarily served anywhere from funerals to potlucks to tailgates to parties. Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 23 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for customarily
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Adverb
  • The union regularly receives financial disclosures from every club, but under the condition that the union keeps them confidential.
    Evan Drellich, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Considering how close Canadian fans were to witnessing Ohtani's greatness regularly, their strife and pain are understandable.
    Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Commerce writer Julia Harrison is usually a down pillow devotee, but Boll & Branch’s alternative fill might have swayed her to the other side.
    Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The 29th edition of the fest is showing off its usual rich selection of progressive programming to be sure, but in terms of emotion, one viewer told co-directors Hilary Powell and Dan Edelstyn, films here are usually more about getting angry or perhaps somber.
    Will Tizard, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • The rookies The Oilers routinely slow-play NHL rookies and players who do not qualify as rookies but have little or no NHL experience.
    Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
  • The Rhesus monkeys had been housed at the Tulane University National Biomedical Research Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, which routinely provides primates to scientific research organizations, according to the university.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2025
Adverb
  • McGuane’s style grew less frantic, more habitually elegiac.
    Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2025
  • In the rulings thus far in Hemani, lower courts have found the federal statute unconstitutional in this particular case, in which the defendant was not actively intoxicated but does habitually use marijuana.
    Solcyré Burga, Time, 27 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Unlike warm-season grasses, cool-season grass seed is commonly used for overseeding and starting a new lawn.
    Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Theodore Roosevelt builds West Wing (1902) Before it was officially known as the White House, the residence was commonly called the Executive Mansion or the President’s House.
    Ashley J. DiMella, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Congress typically approves funding for these nutrition programs through the annual appropriations process.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2025
  • How much each team earns through revenue sharing is also not typically disclosed.
    Evan Drellich, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Heather, who normally is good at playing this game and tactful while making risky moves like this, seems to have had just enough to drink to lose that tact.
    Tom Smyth, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2025
  • According to the Washington Post, SNAP normally costs the federal government around $9 billion a month.
    Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 4 Nov. 2025
Adverb
  • And both blocked the positive effects of the immunotherapy drug anti-PD-L1, which ordinarily boosts the production and activity of tumor-fighting T cells.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The location in Kentish Town in the Borough of Camden is close to central London, which is different to most studio facilities in England, which are ordinarily housed out of town.
    Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2025

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