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ROUTINELY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

According to routine or established practice

Example:

he routinely parked in a no-parking zone

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 Context examples: 

The study of bone marrow smears is routinely used for the investigation, diagnosis, and staging of hematopoietic disorders.

(Bone Marrow Smear, NCI Thesaurus)

The outbreak was linked to lychee orchard exposures where agrochemicals were routinely used, but not to consumption of lychees.

(Lychee deaths linked to pesticides, not the fruit, SciDev.Net)

While drugs such as etanercept and anakinra, which are routinely used to treat autoinflammatory and chronic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, had little effect on the patients, one biological drug called tocilizumab did.

(Researchers discover new autoinflammatory disease and uncover its biological cause, National Institutes of Health)

“Our treatment modality does not introduce anything new to the body, and lasers are routinely used in medicine and dentistry, so the barriers to clinical translation are low,” Mooney says.

(Laser Therapy Prompts Regeneration in Teeth, NIH)

Polystyrene has been routinely detected in the world's oceans since the 1970s.

(Sunlight degrades polystyrene faster than expected, National Science Foundation)

Babies and preschoolers were routinely immunized until 2008.

(Vaccine for Meningitis Shows Some Protection Against Gonorrhea, VOA)

Viruses which routinely infect humans

(Human Virus, NCI Thesaurus)