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AS USUAL
I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In the usual manner
Example:
as usual, she arrived late
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Context examples:
Mrs. Norris took possession of the White House, the Grants arrived at the Parsonage, and these events over, everything at Mansfield went on for some time as usual.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
“I’m bound to say that I make nothing of the note except that there was something on hand, and that a woman, as usual was at the bottom of it.”
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Let him have his warm milk and curaçoa the same as usual.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Prescriptions poured in from all quarters, and as usual, were all declined.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The storm initially produced patches of extra electrons in the ionosphere over northern Greenland, as usual.
(Solar Storms Can Drain Electrical Charge Above Earth, NASA)
Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
On that evening the horses had been exercised and watered as usual, and the stables were locked up at nine o’clock.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I was carried, as usual, in my travelling-box, which as I have already described, was a very convenient closet, of twelve feet wide.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
By degrees, however, his sorrow grew less, and although at times he still grieved over his loss, he was able to go about as usual, and later on he married again.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
No. Was not it Mrs Speed, as usual, or the maid?
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
