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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
usual
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
as usual (=in the way that she usually was)
▪ Roberta was late as usual.
sb’s normal/usual/regular routine
▪ Although he'd gone, I continued with my normal routine.
the normal/usual pattern
▪ As soon as she could, she resumed the normal pattern of her life.
the usual excuse/the same old excuse
▪ He made the usual excuses for not coming.
▪ Whenever the trains are late, it's always the same old excuse.
the usual method
▪ The usual method of investing in a company is by buying shares in it.
the usual preliminaries
▪ After the usual preliminaries, the chairman made his announcement.
your normal/usual self
▪ When she came home at Christmas she seemed very quiet and not her normal self.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ The dignitaries, as usual, waited for him to go first.
▪ The children, as usual, stayed behind.
▪ The right, as usual these days, is in a quandary.
▪ How could they proceed with business as usual?
▪ At one school, children watched television and played video games as usual.
▪ Tommy, as usual, is whispering to Nico hotly when I come through the reception room.
▪ John, hurrying as usual, almost walked right into it.
▪ Szott, as usual, will labor in anonymity.
more
▪ Today, it is more usual to replace the base with marine ply.
▪ Only later did the skin of the shark turn back to its more usual blue-and-white shading.
▪ Warehouses with more than 20 stacker-cranes are not unknown although it is more usual to find systems with 2 to 6 cranes.
▪ The trade here is of a more usual nature with the pubs open to 11 at night.
▪ Such numbers are now much more usual in the western harbours.
▪ His hurried journey allows us to estimate a more usual journey as taking about six to eight weeks.
▪ It is more usual to wash or dip the cheeses in liquid.
▪ Infanticide is a defence to murder, but it is more usual to charge infanticide in the first place.
most
▪ The most usual type of unsprung mattress is the foam one.
▪ The most usual area of difficulty is in relation to leasehold properties.
▪ The most usual method of sending out information to more than a few broadcasting stations or publications is by post.
▪ Until recently surgical resection was the most usual treatment.
▪ The most usual form is canon at the unison, or octave.
▪ The most usual flavouring additions are spices, peppercorns and nuts, especially pistachios.
■ NOUN
manner
▪ These were fed into the system in the usual manner to create the required data base.
▪ This can be done quickly in the following manner: Test the corneal reflexes and facial sensation in the usual manner.
▪ The first two landed in the usual manner.
▪ Each field may then be edited in the usual manner.
pattern
▪ This may seem a paradox and different from the usual pattern of learning, therefore it needs to become a habit.
▪ The usual pattern was calm, then a storm.
▪ You should also establish the patient's usual pattern of fluid intake and output by tactful questioning.
▪ The usual pattern is to start with a larger definition of the neighborhood, and narrow in as the training proceeds.
▪ The latter is the usual pattern and I only know it to be his as the items came from the family.
▪ We took up our positions, driving stakes into the ground in the usual pattern.
▪ It is important that the nurse establishes what is the usual pattern for the patient.
▪ As masculinist networks, armies develop the usual patterns of consensual transgressive behaviour.
place
▪ A 3.0 litre, 24 valve power plant in the usual place, under the bonnet.
▪ Sandie, in her usual place on the long couch, looks pale, but determined.
▪ It stopped at the usual place, and a soldier in a red and gold uniform jumped down.
▪ The smoke was steady in the usual place.
▪ Two months ago he went there and saw the usual places and people.
▪ She set the latter down at the King's hand, then without a word took her usual place across from me.
▪ It wasn't a usual place.
practice
▪ It has become usual practice for record companies to advance bands some money to underwrite the costs of these first tours.
▪ This is because the usual practice would be for the investment manager to deal only in its own name account client.
▪ It would be usual practice to ensure that the payment is costed to the month in which the work is carried out.
▪ They were advised to use topical steroids only on severely affected areas of skin, in accordance with our usual practice.
▪ In common with usual practice, most printing establishments acted as agents for the large firms in the country who specialised in wedding stationery.
▪ It is usual practice for the management of the trust to set the bid price above the limit set by the formula.
▪ The usual practice is for casks to be rolled into deep, cool cellars.
▪ Instead Smith Kline chose just twenty-five key distributors, with whom it maintained far closer contact than was usual practice.
run
▪ The usual run of mugging, housebreaking and shoplifting.
▪ Anything of quality was exciting in those days, for the usual run of food was of a dullness today hardly comprehensible.
▪ It has been designed to be different from the usual run of the mill international tax conference.
self
▪ She woke and dressed, spraying on perfume in a manner quite unlike her usual self.
▪ Being ecstatic means being flung out of your usual self.
▪ Not his usual self at all, one way or another.
▪ Old Chao seemed to be pulling his usual self back on with his sock.
▪ Miguel was his usual self and his efficiency left him in fifth place.
suspect
▪ Then come the usual suspects, categories that we can rattle through quickly before announcing the big ones.
▪ I happened to find myself with the Commander on the gallery one afternoon: the other usual suspects were missing.
▪ In other words, the usual suspects.
▪ But there is a lot in it for the usual suspects.
▪ The usual suspects are labor unions, which have been around for a century.
▪ Not even the Seattle earthquake could deflect these usual suspects from their mission to keep the Clinton era alive for our delectation.
time
▪ He awoke at his usual time Wednesday morning, November 27, and remained awake until 12 o'clock Saturday night.
▪ The next morning, Quinn was in front of the hotel at his usual time.
▪ She let Ann and Lena go at their usual time and stayed on alone.
▪ Eva had already been promoted to major before the usual time.
▪ He had got up at the usual time and played with his sisters.
▪ Chapter Twelve 2 January George had left for work at his usual time of eight fifteen.
▪ I cycled over from Creeting at the usual time and when I started it were all right.
▪ We finished at ten minutes to six, about our usual time.
way
▪ There is then a dynamic situation, with the near-shore sediments building out laterally in the usual way.
▪ This is the usual way of friendships in the information age.
▪ As the music begins, concentrate for a few moments on relaxing your body in the usual way.
▪ The solution is then completed in the usual way.
▪ Staff in these Departments considering additional computers are at liberty to submit suggestions through line management in the usual way. 3.
▪ I then cut out the neckline and sew in the usual way.
▪ Is this your usual way of greeting your escorts?
▪ The usual way in which his power is circumscribed is by limiting it to a right to break for certain specified purposes.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
as per usual/normal
▪ Besides which, you've missed the point as per usual: to speak is to admit existence.
▪ Same old jolly camp-fire life went on as per usual.
business as usual
▪ Despite the fire damage, it's business as usual at the barber shop.
▪ Back in Los Angeles it was business as usual.
▪ How could they proceed with business as usual?
▪ It will soon be back to business as usual.
▪ So it was business as usual.
▪ The next day was business as usual.
▪ This change has involved more than just mixing up kids and carrying on business as usual.
▪ This is more than dictatorial business as usual.
▪ We need to be clear that, if Bush defeats Al Gore, there will no longer be business as usual.
the usual suspects
▪ But there is a lot in it for the usual suspects.
▪ In other words, the usual suspects.
▪ The usual suspects are labor unions, which have been around for a century.
▪ Then come the usual suspects, categories that we can rattle through quickly before announcing the big ones.
the usual/normal/general run of sth
▪ Anything of quality was exciting in those days, for the usual run of food was of a dullness today hardly comprehensible.
▪ Credit taken by the general run of consumers - those not in an extremity of financial need - was not specially regulated.
▪ In the normal run of things I would have had no business there, no access.
▪ It has been designed to be different from the usual run of the mill international tax conference.
▪ It ought to be said that this particular extract poses more difficulties than the normal run of parish registers.
▪ This, however, was not the normal run of things.
▪ What should we do when confronted with claims which are conspicuously at odds with the general run of experience?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ All the usual people were there.
▪ Is it usual for him to be so late?
▪ It seemed colder than usual in the house.
▪ She was sitting in her usual chair by the fire.
▪ The usual adult dose is 600 mg daily.
▪ We've sold more than the usual amount of coal this year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As usual he brought with him a collection of friends and a lot of commotion.
▪ Bigwig, with his usual brisk energy, set to work.
▪ But of course the usual analogy is an arms race.
▪ It is usual for an interviewer to show the candidate to the door with a few final words.
▪ Marsha sits at her office desk, casually dressed, as usual.
▪ The tubes in the automatic fraction collector were meticulously labeled, with none of the usual felt-tip scribbles.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Usual

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
usual

late 14c., from Old French usuel "current, in currency (of money), valid" (13c.) and directly from Late Latin usualis "ordinary," from Latin usus "custom" (see use (v.)). The usual suspects is from a line delivered by Claude Rains (as a French police inspector) in "Casablanca" (1942).

Wiktionary
usual

a. most commonly occurring

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WordNet
usual

  1. adj. occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure; "grew the usual vegetables"; "the usual summer heat"; "came at the usual time"; "the child's usual bedtime" [ant: unusual]

  2. commonly encountered; "a common (or familiar) complaint"; "the usual greeting" [syn: common]

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Wikipedia
Usual

Usual may refer to:

  • Common
  • Normal
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Usage examples of "usual".

The hardier swimmers, with Paul, struck out for the abutment on the pier in their usual way and poor Michael was left alone.

With their droll sarcasm, high spirits, and practical jokes, Acer and his set took it upon themselves to flatter and tease Jacinda back into her usual good humor.

After precipitating as ammonic-magnesic phosphate with sodium phosphate, and well washing with ammonia, it is dissolved in dilute hydrochloric acid, neutralised with ammonia, and sodic acetate and acetic acid are added in the usual quantity.

Our beloved Father acquiesces, for he thinks you, at present, too much shaken, as well as herself, for so agitating an interview, till her mind is restored to its usual firmness.

The address in the commons was ultimately agreed to after a most acrimonious debate, protracted by the Irish members and their opponents far beyond the limits usual on such occasions.

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

The old man appeared to be listening attentively and as affectionately as his infirmities would allow to the Abbe Busoni, who looked cold and calm, as usual.

Dasslerond yelled at him, and she seemed even more fierce than usual, for her golden hair was all aflutter from the tingling of his electrical burst.

Ernest says that if the exercise was any better than usual it must have been by a fluke, for he is sure that he always liked dogs, especially St Bernard dogs, far too much to take any pleasure in writing Alcaics about them.

As usual, when I used the loo I found that someone with pubic alopecia had beaten me to it.

Still forgetful of his new alpaca overcoat, the commissioner strode from the grill room by the usual door, expecting Cardona to follow, which Joe did, with a grin.

But as they left the beautifully landscaped road that had carried them from the airport to the city and turned off into the urban residential district he saw that the splendor was, unsurprisingly, a fraud of the usual Alvarado kind: the avenues had been paved, all right, but they were reverting to nature again, cracking and upheaving as the swelling roots of the bombacho trees and the candelero palms that had been planted down the central dividers ripped them apart.

Those two handsome adepts of Terpsichore had never met before, and they began an amorous warfare which made me enjoy my supper immensely, because, as he was a fellow artist, Marina assumed towards Baletti a tone well adapted to the circumstances, and very different to her usual manner with other men.

He said that he spent a delightful night, in spite of his fear of the evil consequences of our amorous sport, and he has found my own efforts superior to the usual weakness of my sex.

After the first ecstacy was over, I proceeded to examine her beauties, and with my usual amorous frenzy told her that she should send her tailor out to graze and live with me.