customarily

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Recent Examples of customarily Even with conditions less than ideal, celebrities customarily arrive by car and the red carpet — which is actually blue this year — will be covered, probably keeping the parade of fashion icons dry. Angela Yang, NBC news, 6 May 2025 Therapists are not customarily docile in that same way. Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025 Tea and chocolate are customarily served at the end of a meal with dessert, especially on special occasions. Eve Glover, Fox News, 16 Feb. 2025 State humanities councils customarily regrant NEH money to local organizations including libraries, museums, historical societies, documentary filmmakers and others. Elizabeth Blair, NPR, 3 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for customarily
Recent Examples of Synonyms for customarily
Adverb
  • Holcombe recommends regularly wearing compression socks on long-hauls.
    Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2025
  • Inspect your cookware regularly for chips, burrs, warping, or rough bottoms, as these can cause surface scratches.
    Shivani Vyas, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 June 2025
Adverb
  • But others, usually in more politically sensitive fields, flagged employee welfare concerns.
    Jenni Reid, CNBC, 1 June 2025
  • The audience also waved their hats in the air and saluted the beloved actor, who would usually sit in a seat behind home plate and be the softball game’s umpire.
    Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 31 May 2025
Adverb
  • In previous years, when politicians like Geert Wilders of the Netherlands and Britain's Michael Gove, or authors like France's Michel Houellebecq raised alarms about the growing prevalence of political Islam on the Continent, they were routinely dismissed as cranks, alarmists, or simply as racists.
    Ilan Berman, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 2025
  • For example, if the app is a run-of-the-mill type of application that covers things that have been done routinely before, a code generator can especially be advantageous.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
Adverb
  • Erling Haaland has been typically effective and Omar Marmoush a breath of fresh air.
    Thom Harris, New York Times, 28 May 2025
  • These features introduce young entrepreneurs to customer lifetime value concepts and retention strategies typically learned much later in business education.
    Sarah Hernholm, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
Adverb
  • In Britain, there is a strict tradition of informed medical consent where a patient can refuse medical treatment, and a doctor can’t ordinarily be forced to carry it out.
    David Mac Dougall, FOXNews.com, 25 May 2025
  • While having so many productions featuring drag would not ordinarily raise an eyebrow, this roster of shows comes after President Trump instituted a series of firings at the Kennedy Center and vowed to remake the venue's programming in his MAGA image.
    Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 20 May 2025
Adverb
  • Luckily, today’s smartphones are ideal for capturing images of even faint aurora, which generally look white to the naked eye.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
  • However, studies have found that this species is generally not the most efficient host for the pathogen that causes the disease, according to Adams, who’s also a disease ecologist.
    Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2025

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