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Answer for the clue "As a rule ", 8 letters:
normally
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Word definitions for normally in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
normally \nor"mal*ly\, adv. In a normal manner. --Darwin.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "regularly," from normal + -ly (2). Meaning "under ordinary conditions" is from 1853.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adv. under normal conditions; "usually she was late" [syn: usually , unremarkably , commonly , ordinarily ] [ant: unusually ]
Usage examples of normally.
Even those whom we would normally think of as accelerating may claim to be at rest, since they can attribute the force they feel to their being immersed in a gravitational field.
But when the adjective comes immediately in front of the noun it describes, it must normally be assumed that it is used attributively and not predicatively.
Normally the adjudication committee would have refused to allow them to withdraw, but I requested they bend the Rules on this one occasion.
Normally, arrest and search warrants, along with the affidavits submitted to support them, are open to public review.
And Lieutenant Alameda, her normally sour expression gone, was actually beautiful when she allowed herself to smile.
Normally, it was given by mouth, but - as advised by the alchemist - scratched into the skin of these small people at quarter-strength, it worked amazingly quickly.
NORMALLY, Renz was a man of poise, while Alker was inclined to be nervous.
Wherever they sailed, the dense schools of amberjack and billfish observed from orbit turned and headed for waters that were colder and deeper than anything they normally inhabited.
This aroused the normally mild-mannered and unexcitable technician to the point where he completely forgot leaving the apocalyptic sandwich behind.
Conscious that the human organism, normally capable of sustaining an atmospheric pressure of 19 tons, when elevated to a considerable altitude in the terrestrial atmosphere suffered with arithmetical progression of intensity, according as the line of demarcation between troposphere and stratosphere was approximated from nasal hemorrhage, impeded respiration and vertigo, when proposing this problem for solution, he had conjectured as a working hypothesis which could not be proved impossible that a more adaptable and differently anatomically constructed race of beings might subsist otherwise under Martian, Mercurial, Veneral, Jovian, Saturnian, Neptunian or Uranian sufficient and equivalent conditions, though an apogean humanity of beings created in varying forms with finite differences resulting similar to the whole and to one another would probably there as here remain inalterably and inalienably attached to vanities, to vanities of vanities and to all that is vanity.
She wondered, though, how the normally stiff and arthritic old man could move with such ease.
At the conclusion of services, which normally had 400 to 500 attendees, Rababah says he happened to meet Hazmi and Hanjour.
Captain Kirk was therefore directed to extend to Commander ha Bem all courtesies normally extended to an attached observer, with special regard for the precarious diplomatic situation, keeping in mind the need to .
It disturbed Laura to see the faint bickering that occurred these days between Rhoda and Seth over trifles that normally both would have ignored.
Normally, Delphine was at the door, smiling, waving, calling out bienvenue while Gaby was still halfway down the block.