customary
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Uber said the ezCater transaction is expected to close in the coming months, subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Flights and hotels are now customary expenses, in addition to gifts, while more than two-thirds of weddings last two to three days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
"As the number of private lodging businesses has risen, complaints and troubles around them have increased," the official said on customary condition of anonymity.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
The customary roar of approval from Labour MPs followed as he took his seat.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
“If only you had taken the customary roads!”
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
His Antiquities of Teutonic Law have shown that the codes of the Lombards, Franks, and Goths were not mere savage, brutal customaries, based, as had been supposed, on the absence of all law and right.
From Popular Tales from the Norse by George Webbe Dasent
Under date August, 1569, in the accounts of the High Treasurer there is an entry, where the "customaries of Ochterairder" are mentioned along with those of St. Andrews.
From Chronicles of Strathearn by W. B. Macdougall
Vocabulary lists containing customary
"The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak, Part Six
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