usual practice
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It was punctuated by an automatic voice saying the caller was a prisoner, which is usual practice for calls from Iranian prisons.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Judges then stunned the nation by ordering Sarkozy to swiftly start serving his sentence, dispensing with the usual practice of waiting until a white-collar convict exhausts the appeals process.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
CBS clarified that those Harris quotes had both been part of the answer to the same question, and that certain edits had been made for the sake of timing, per usual practice.
From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2025
The usual practice is you'd be reluctant to have someone who's a lawyer on a matter serve as an affiant.
From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2025
It was not Penelope’s usual practice to let the children sleep in their clothes, but with hardly any voice to argue, she could only raise her eyebrows and hold up one finger.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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