true to form

idiom

: behaving or proceeding in the usual and expected way
Her latest movie is/runs true to form.
True to form, he was 20 minutes late for the meeting.

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And, true to form, Trump's salvo of tariffs over the last several weeks—instituting a chaotic reciprocal tariff regime, only to walk it back for 90 days while increasing restrictions on Chinese exports—is the epitome of unpredictability. Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025 Udoka, true to form, wanted all the smoke after all. Anthony Slater, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025 And true to form, the Mavericks opened the season losing four of their first seven games. John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2025 And true to form, Bob, a past winner of RuPaul's Drag Race, is creating a live show based on the book. H. Alan Scott, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for true to form

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“True to form.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/true%20to%20form. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.

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