business as usual
idiom
—used to say that something is working or continuing in the normal or usual way
Much of the town lost electricity in the storm, but for people with generators it was business as usual.
As the election nears, both political parties continue to blame each other for all the city's problems. In other words, it's business as usual.
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Some within the office, however, said that while new leadership will energize the office, the attitude among the rank-and-file has largely been business as usual — despite all the distractions.
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Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2025
Marketers and their teams doing business as usual, while dabbling with different tools and dashboards, will not be enough to catalyze such a pivot.
—Billee Howard, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
But this is the environment where this is business as usual in 1997.
—Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 6 Mar. 2025
Jackson raised skepticism to the idea that what's happening at the CFPB is business as usual.
—Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 3 Mar. 2025
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Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2025
Marketers and their teams doing business as usual, while dabbling with different tools and dashboards, will not be enough to catalyze such a pivot.
—Billee Howard, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
But this is the environment where this is business as usual in 1997.
—Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 6 Mar. 2025
Jackson raised skepticism to the idea that what's happening at the CFPB is business as usual.
—Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 3 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for business as usual
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“Business as usual.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/business%20as%20usual. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.
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