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
  • But the Eagles utterly overwhelmed the Chiefs’ line in the title game and thus rendered the usually wizardly Mahomes mortal in a 40-22 blowout that saw Kansas City go scoreless until 34 seconds remained in the third quarter.
    Mike Jones, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Known for her wardrobe of elevated basics, Meghan Markle isn’t usually one to follow the trend cycle.
    Ana Serrano, Glamour, 25 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • During pre-game lineup announcements at Allianz Field, Boxall’s name routinely draws one of the loudest vocal endorsements from the team’s supporters.
    Jeff Rueter, New York Times, 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
  • But truncation, typically, does not work within quotation marks.
    Kristen Finch, JSTOR Daily, 21 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • Governors wouldn’t ordinarily file a court case contesting a president’s foreign policy.
    George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2025
  • His hands, ordinarily trapped in the pockets of his tracksuit when not frantically presenting tactical instructions or wagging a finger at opposition benches, escaped midway through the second half of his side’s 2-1 win over Brighton & Hove Albion to savour the moment with the Palace supporters.
    Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 7 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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“Customarily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/customarily. Accessed 28 Apr. 2025.

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