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AS USUAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does as usual mean?
• AS USUAL (adverb)
The adverb AS USUAL has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: AS USUAL used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In the usual manner
Context example:
as usual, she arrived late
Context examples
They found Mary, as usual, deep in the study of thorough-bass and human nature; and had some extracts to admire, and some new observations of threadbare morality to listen to.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
As usual, the watches below and the hunters turned out for what promised sport.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
As she departed, Mr. Dashwood put up his feet, with the graceful remark, "Poor and proud, as usual, but she'll do."
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I made a couch with furs, and Madam Mina, lying down, yield herself as usual, but more slow and more short time than ever, to the hypnotic sleep.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
With morning came Peggotty; who called to me, as usual, under my window as if Mr. Barkis the carrier had been from first to last a dream too.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
McArdle was at his post as usual.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
During that meal he appeared just as composed as usual.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Some studies had used both the IRIF (interventions to regulate intestinal microbiota) approach and treatment as usual.
(Anxiety May Be Alleviated by Changing Gut Bacteria, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
With this treatment, Mr. Woodhouse was soon composed enough for talking as usual.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Mice with heart failure that were treated for six weeks with the molecule showed not only that the disease had been stabilized—as usual with present-day medications—but also the improvement in condition.
(Molecule created in Brazil helps fight heart failure, Agência Brasil)
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