customarily
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Instead, the justices spent the hearing as they customarily do, engaged in a complex and legalistic discussion about how to analyze ambiguous text and how to weigh historical evidence.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
"They also customarily brief Congress, so the people’s representatives can express their view," Shapiro wrote.
From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026
Edward I then invested his son Edward II as the Prince of Wales, and since then the title has customarily - though not always - been given to the heir apparent.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2025
Comedy and tragedy customarily share space in “Star Trek” — “Section 31” begins with a quote from Aeschylus and includes an extended discussion over whether the gizmo they’re after is called “Godsend” or “God’s End.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 24, 2025
The workers, who marked watch dials with luminous radium paint, customarily licked their brushes to a fine point, ingesting the radioactive substance.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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