customarily

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Recent Examples of customarily The feedback that might customarily be provided by a fellow human is bound to be muddled with all kinds of feckless improprieties. Lance Eliot, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025 His meticulous craftsmanship takes on narrative bloat, his fluid juggling of characters and subplots turns mechanistic, and his customarily perfect pitch with actors gets lost, or at least scrambled, in translation. Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2025 Tea and chocolate are customarily served at the end of a meal with dessert, especially on special occasions like Valentine's Day. Eve Glover, Fox News, 16 Feb. 2025 That differs from the variations customarily shown by human umpires. Evan Drellich, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for customarily
Recent Examples of Synonyms for customarily
Adverb
  • About 12 percent of women have their sleep regularly interrupted by their young children, compared with less than 3 percent of men.
    Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Executive branch heads were directed to report back regularly on its implementation.
    Julia Mueller, The Hill, 14 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • Ryan Reynolds, who moonlights as co-owner of Welsh soccer club Wrexham A.F.C., turned up alongside super-creator Taylor Sheridan (whose own athletics usually involve cattle), NBA investor Mark Cuban and former Obama commerce secretary Penny Prtizker.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 11 Apr. 2025
  • His process usually begins the same way: examining the release language tucked near the end of the agreement, where the list of parties shielded from liability appears.
    Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 11 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • But the human brain routinely does this work nearly instantaneously based on the language’s grammatical rules, says linguist Andrea E. Martin of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands.
    Gayoung Lee, Scientific American, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Or that graphing calculators bought for $5, routinely resell for $30 during back-to-school season?
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • The Roman Catholic Church has about 1.3 billion members worldwide, and papal funerals typically draw millions of mourners to Rome.
    Savannah Kuchar, USA Today, 22 Apr. 2025
  • That is slightly above the average of 67 degrees typically seen this time of year in the metro.
    Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 21 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • Led by Marcel Malanga's father, Christian Malanga, a Congolese political exile who ordinarily lived in Utah, the group of men attacked the home of a senior Congolese politician on May 19, 2024, before invading Kinshasa's sprawling presidential complex.
    NPR's International Desk, NPR, 8 Apr. 2025
  • The dual-class effect: Meta as a case study In a standard single-class structure – where voting power tracks the amount of company equity a shareholder owns – someone seeking total control of a company must ordinarily spend a lot of money buying up shares, which also means assuming a lot of risk.
    Gregory H. Shill, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • Purple states are generally presidential battleground states or those where voters regularly split their support between the two parties: Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
    Rae Ellen Bichell and Rachana Pradhan, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2025
  • More Americans generally said the government is doing too little on the environment when a Republican administration leads than during a Democratic presidency.
    Lauren Irwin, The Hill, 17 Apr. 2025

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