almost always

ADVERB

generally

Synonyms

STRONGEST

broadly commonly customarily largely mostly normally ordinarily publicly roughly typically universally usually widely

WEAK

about all in all altogether approximately as a rule by and large chiefly conventionally en masse extensively for the most part habitually on average on the whole overall popularly practically predominantly primarily principally regularly roundly thereabouts

Antonyms

STRONGEST

rarely sometimes unusually

WEAK

exactly particularly seldom specifically

Example Sentences

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But Bowen, 35, has been managing it for 10 years, making sales, offering advice and hearing travelers’ tales, which almost always come with surprises.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

Too often, Social Security advice defaults to black-and-white answers, when in reality it’s almost always a gray, highly individual situation.

From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026

It found customers "can almost always make a genuine saving on the usual price by buying loyalty priced products".

From BBC • May 5, 2026

But I’d say seven to ten minutes of my 15-minute reset is, almost always, spent sudsing and scrubbing.

From Salon • May 5, 2026

When I got angry as a kid, I almost always funneled it through my mother.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

almost always

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