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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
usually
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
associate
▪ It is usually associated with oppressed minorities.
▪ But the jitters and anxieties usually associated with a starring role in a new play are nowhere to be seen.
▪ Skill is usually associated with producing what we intend.
▪ Hypokalemia is usually associated with this condition and is a more likely cause of the arrhythmias.
▪ It is itself required for the fulfilment of the task we usually associate with political authority.
▪ They crossed the former's tight disco-funk arrangements with witty incisive lyrics more usually associated with new wave bands.
▪ Larger administrative units are usually associated with a greater concentration of service outlets.
call
▪ Nobody usually called him Mr Evans!
▪ It is usually called holistic medicine or holistic health.
▪ So what if he did usually call in?
▪ Design specifications usually call for a required flow of 65 milliamps.
▪ Leicester - usually called Red Leicester - melts quickly and evenly.
▪ You use a version of email to send a message, usually called a posting, to a newsgroup.
▪ The head of a public sector institution is usually called the director or principal.
find
▪ In addition members of the class usually find marriage partners from the same class.
▪ But when he tried to follow through on his outlandish agenda, he usually found himself standing virtually alone.
▪ Those keeping to a strict 1,000 calories a day allowance will usually find this to be a realistic target.
▪ People who want to get out of jury service usually find a way.
▪ Advantages: An agency can usually find you some one at the last minute.
▪ An uneducated and ignorant man would usually find the Klan right there to take him in and give him a group.
▪ By the time three adults are up beside you singing, I usually find I have the attention of everyone.
▪ I am not a bar pick-up kind of person, and I usually find the whole scene pretty cheesy.
involve
▪ But, mainly, the first method usually involves more work than the second.
▪ For a fiveor six-year-old, adding will usually involve piling up beans, buttons, or nuts.
▪ The sign-up procedure usually involves providing some personal information.
▪ Also, the disagreements between the two bosses usually involve subtleties in emphasis, priorities, and the like.
▪ The care of the institutionalized alcoholic usually involves the control of supplies.
▪ In nature, the elements form stable chemical compounds with each other, usually involving oxygen.
▪ Thus economic models of bureaucratic behaviour usually involve a theory of legislative behaviour in which politicians aim to maximize their electoral support.
▪ The field test procedures resemble an actual quality assessment and usually involve an audit of client records.
mean
▪ This will usually mean encouraging greater leverage to allow the work to be performed profitably.
▪ It kept getting later and that usually means the Yankees find a way.
▪ And although there is usually another promise about interest rates, in the long run it usually means very little.
▪ Lower overhead usually means discount prices, and searchable shops make it easier to locate hard-to-find items.
▪ It usually means clattering over ice and rocks down a three-foot-wide piste, in gale-force winds and horizontal rain.
▪ More men would take leave if they could afford to, but taking leave usually means sacrificing income.
▪ A finals company usually means there are some fourteen or sixteen students, or more, to be placed.
▪ The Anglish noun is KAka, usually meaning something bad or inferior.
take
▪ Cases involving taxi drivers usually took place at night in remote areas; it was an easy form of attack.
▪ Disturbance of musical abilities in professional musicians usually takes left-brain damage.
▪ It was aimed at the top 60% of school pupils, and was usually taken by 15- and 16-year-olds.
▪ Then the vessels were full-sized galleons, carefully prepared for the trip which usually took six months.
▪ Three tiers of certificate are offered: Part 1, usually taken after one or two years part-time study.
▪ Bank robbers usually take the money and run.
▪ Sheep are usually taken to higher land in summer; cattle are overwintered indoors.
▪ It usually takes an hour and a half to make a hat.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Usually, I'll just get a sandwich for lunch.
▪ It's not usually this cold in April.
▪ Janet usually wears jeans to work.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Dispensations can be obtained and will usually be given for an acquisition of a company by private contract.
▪ I have been there usually to interview a witness, but the sights are chilling.
▪ Standing alone, it will not usually win a case, but it is an essential starting point.
▪ The release of a single by a new act doesn't usually result in a major marketing campaign.
▪ The toughest chief officer, or the group with the most powerful chair, will usually win.
▪ There is usually a desire for vinegar, pickles and tasty foods, and a dislike for fat, meat and milk.
▪ They pilfer lesser-known works, usually costing less than $ 300, 000, to sell on the black market.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Usually

Usual \U"su*al\, a. [L. usualis, from usus use: cf. F. usuel. See Use, n.] Such as is in common use; such as occurs in ordinary practice, or in the ordinary course of events; customary; ordinary; habitual; common.

Consultation with oracles was a thing very usual and frequent in their times.
--Hooker.

We can make friends of these usual enemies.
--Baxter. [1913 Webster] -- U"su*al*ly, adv. -- U"su*al*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
usually

late 15c., from usual + -ly (2).

Wiktionary
usually

adv. 1 Most of the time; less than always, but more than occasionally. 2 Under normal conditions.

WordNet
usually

adv. under normal conditions; "usually she was late" [syn: normally, unremarkably, commonly, ordinarily] [ant: unusually]

Usage examples of "usually".

I knew he usually aborted only married women, in their late twenties and thirties.

Where his face was not bruised or abraded, his usually milk-pale skin was gray.

I did: knew abusee usually turns to abuser for comfort once attack over.

And if I asked Biliktu, after she had rested for a while, to come and join me and her sister, she might sigh, but she would usually accede, and she would give good account of herself.

Solving problems is usually a short term thing, but achieving national progress requires taking a long-term, goal-oriented approach.

While the acousticians usually came to work in jackets and ties, the atmosphere on the computer side was decidedly more relaxed.

Though usually in such cases the growth is of an unbalanced or localized sort, as in acromegaly, where the bones of the hands or jaw become abnormally enlarged.

State courts have acted, the federal courts will usually leave the prisoner to the usual and orderly procedure of appeal to the Supreme Court.

People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible, and they who feel one thing acutely will so feel another.

The soils of Northern Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, that have produced hardwood timber, have unusually high adaptation to the growth of this plant, and as the snow usually covers the ground in these areas in winter, the crop may be relied upon with much certainty.

Another subtle aspect of addiction is that, although it is the first dose that hooks us, the whole process is usually so subtle and gradual that it can take years for us to realize that we are actually hooked.

Lyceum and the other places usually cited, are near the middle--what need have we to go further and seek beyond Place, admitting as we do that we refer in every instance to a place?

Usually it was the adoptees who came to her for help in finding their birth parents.

The adulterating ingredient is usually pipe-clay, of which a liberal portion is substituted for sugar.

Change until adulthood, usually between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one, a human bitten by a werewolf was a werewolf immediately, regardless of his age.