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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for customarily
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Trump has regularly criticized former President Joe Biden for permitting millions of people to enter the United States under parole or an asylum claim after the border was closed during the COVID-19 pandemic.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
26 Apr. 2025
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And that is collecting information on their players, the players who will be central to this becoming a team that is regularly playing in front of that crowd at this time of year and even deeper into the spring.—
Arpon Basu,
New York Times,
26 Apr. 2025
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While popes have the option of keeping their baptismal name, every pope for the last 470 years has chosen to change his name, usually to honor a predecessor and to signal their intention to emulate his example.—
Christopher Watson,
ABC News,
25 Apr. 2025
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In the immediate aftermath, the shooting leaves Elsbeth’s son, Teddy (Ben Levi Ross), disillusioned enough to abandon his plans to follow her into law, and his usually unflappable mother is too traumatized to put up a fight in the matter.—
Hunter Ingram,
Variety,
25 Apr. 2025
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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
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Or that graphing calculators bought for $5, routinely resell for $30 during back-to-school season?—
Bryan Robinson,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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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
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But truncation, typically, does not work within quotation marks.—
Kristen Finch,
JSTOR Daily,
21 Apr. 2025
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Governors wouldn’t ordinarily file a court case contesting a president’s foreign policy.—
George Skelton,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Apr. 2025
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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
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More generally, Wright emphasises the importance of the simple fact that different dendritic connections appear to perform different functions.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
17 Apr. 2025
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Most lawmakers have been generally supportive of Trump's policies since his return to the White House, but Murkowski has been more willing to break from the party.—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Apr. 2025
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“Customarily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/customarily. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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