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in a frequent or repeated manner
She is often late leaving for work and routinely skips breakfast. An annual concert that routinely draws 20,000 attendees.
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Recent Examples of routinely
For decades, Musk insisted that SpaceX would remain private until his fleet of Starships routinely carried humans to Mars.
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Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 12 June 2026
The conversation is routinely interrupted by uniformed staff offering us a selection of canapés.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2026
Canales has routinely brought up the need to manage injuries — not just McMillan’s ailment — at this point in the offseason.
—Charlotte Observer, 11 June 2026
In Southeast Asia, Indonesia and Vietnam routinely propose sweeping data localization mandates.
—Leonard Lim, Fortune, 10 June 2026
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Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 12 June 2026
The conversation is routinely interrupted by uniformed staff offering us a selection of canapés.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2026
Canales has routinely brought up the need to manage injuries — not just McMillan’s ailment — at this point in the offseason.
—Charlotte Observer, 11 June 2026
In Southeast Asia, Indonesia and Vietnam routinely propose sweeping data localization mandates.
—Leonard Lim, Fortune, 10 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for routinely
Adverb
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Fascinators — those bobbing bundles often of feathers, flowers and netting perched off-center of the wearer’s head — are banned here.—
Sheena McKenzie,
CNN Money,
19 June 2026
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As a result, many working-class Korean and Latino immigrant households lived side by side and often confronted similar challenges, including substandard housing conditions, landlord abuses and underfunded public schools.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2026
Adverb
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Calls to boycott Japanese products occur frequently whenever old grievances re-emerge.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
17 June 2026
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Ducks are frequently seen wading in the area.—
Michelle Del Rey,
USA Today,
17 June 2026
Adverb
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Studios, production companies and distributors regularly approach Promise, a generative AI company, to bring AI into their productions, and each arrives with its own usage guidelines, said the company’s president, Jamie Byrne.—
Cerys Davies,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2026
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Parker, who serves as the chief of staff at Cook Children’s Hospital, has filed a conflict of interest form disclosing her employment and regularly recuses herself from votes involving city business with the hospital network.—
Harrison Mantas,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 June 2026
Adverb
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The contrast between bright snowfields and deep shadows has always pushed displays to their limits, but on the G6, viewers can finally see the deep, rich blacks that the filmmakers originally intended.—
Nam Sunwoo,
Variety,
19 June 2026
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Not that Oswalt always has time to sprawl out with a novel.—
Rachel Brodsky,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2026
Adverb
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At that edition in Germany, 19 from the squad of 22 had experience of professional football in Ghana’s top two divisions before leaving for European leagues, usually as teenagers.—
Simon Hughes,
New York Times,
17 June 2026
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Tuesday’s match is the first being played in Kansas City at what is usually GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium but is being renamed Kansas City Stadium for the game.—
The Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
17 June 2026
Adverb
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The device is constantly checking for leaks, updating the display every 15 seconds.—
Olivia Young,
Travel + Leisure,
17 June 2026
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Outside constantly, obsessed with animals, collecting and hatching eggs, teaching ducklings to swim.—
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
17 June 2026
Adverb
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The diagnosis became official later that same month after a biopsy confirmed stage 4 ALK-positive lung cancer, a rare subtype that accounts for less than 5% of lung cancer cases and is more commonly found in younger people and never-smokers.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
PEOPLE,
14 June 2026
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Jessica Duce, the founder of JDuce Design in Houston, Texas, will also commonly take an in-wall approach using this cable concealer kit from Amazon.—
Sarah Lyon,
Southern Living,
13 June 2026
Adverb
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Brake gently as needed - Brake normally if the vehicle has anti-lock brakes and pump brakes gently if in an older vehicle.—
KANSAS CITY STAR WEATHER BOT,
Kansas City Star,
14 June 2026
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More than 800 French border control officers will be active, up from about 60 normally.—
Jamey Keaten,
Los Angeles Times,
14 June 2026
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“Routinely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/routinely. Accessed 19 Jun. 2026.
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