as usual
In the normal, habitual, or accustomed way, as in As usual, he forgot to put away the milk. This idiom was first recorded in 1716. Also see business as usual.
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How to use as usual in a sentence
These three appointments seem to be far more politics-as-usual than was expected of the Obama administration.
What sane adults in our drab, business-as-usual world would think of doing that?
The Everett massacre | Walker C. SmithThe frosty old receptionist seemed to be typical in her business-as-usual, come-what-may attitude.
And Then the Town Took Off | Richard WilsonThe German government had tried to meet the English "business-as-usual" with a policy of "eating-as-usual."
The Iron Ration | George Abel Schreiner
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