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n. (context idiomatic English) an act that has been repeated to the point where the performance of the act becomes automatic
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Force of Habit is the fifth studio album by American thrash metal band Exodus, released on August 17, 1992 by Capitol Records in the USA, and Toshiba-EMI in Japan. The songs are a departure from the thrash metal style for Exodus, slower and more experimental. Many of the song titles are figures of speech.
Force of Habit is Exodus's last release until their 1997 live album Another Lesson in Violence and is also their last studio album until 2004's Tempo of the Damned, since the band went on two extended hiatuses. This is Exodus's last album to feature John Tempesta on drums and is also their only album to feature Mike Butler on bass as well as the band's only release without the jagged edged "Exodus" logo that had appeared on all of the band's previous and subsequent releases. It was later re-released in 2008 in a limited edition mini-album packaging to resemble the original vinyl release, including the inner sleeve. This version was remastered and includes the bonus tracks from the Japanese release.
Usage examples of "force of habit".
A report, that the ceremonies of paganism were suppressed, is formally contradicted by the emperor himself, who wisely assigns, as the principle of his moderation, the invincible force of habit, of prejudice, and of superstition.
One of the guards caught him out of force of habit, and the other snatched hold of the pike.
Arranging them had been a force of habit, an obedience to Eliot's rule-no matter how safe you think you are, there's always something more you can do to protect yourself.
I had said, yes, immediately, out of force of habit, but as I say, he had evidently overlooked it - or else it was against the code to sign a man up until you had delivered the full sales talk.
From force of habit he had written at the top of the first page the initial letters of the jesuit motto: A.
Others might have dismissed the gesture as mere force of habit, but Vaylo knew better than that.