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commonly

adverb as in usually

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Israel commonly holds people suspected of threatening national security for long periods without access to legal counsel.

The euphemism most commonly used by convicts for dying is to “be taken off the count.”

Two of the five victims commonly attributed to Jack the Ripper are now suspected of being killed by copycats.

He used the Arab acronym for ISIS or ISIL, as the self-proclaimed “Islamic State” commonly is known.

Its main role is commonly thought to be coordinating our movements.

The Potato is planted very sparingly south of Piedmont, and not so commonly there as in Savoy.

But if you restrict it, to the sense in which it is commonly applied to the angelic sex, I am not prepared to answer.

The war which wasted the Athenians for 27 years, commonly called the Peloponnesian war, began May 7th.

In gonorrhoea gonococci are sometimes found in the sediment, but more commonly in the "gonorrheal threads," or "floaters."

A child's attempt to represent a man appears commonly to begin by drawing a sort of circle for the front view of the head.

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On this page you'll find 30 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to commonly, such as: frequently, generally, more often than not, ordinarily, regularly, and as a rule.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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