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as usual

as usual adverb: as is usually the case.

Adverb

as usual (not comparable)

  1. As is usually the case.
    • “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;[…]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
    • […]and, the 3n by 3n matrix M is, as usual, diagonal with the masses occurring down the main diagonal in sets of three[…].2008, Firdaus E. Udwadia, Robert E. Kalaba, Analytical Dynamics: A New Approach, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 83

as usual meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Arabic and Persian

as usual in Tamil

as is usually the case
வழக்கம்போல vaḻakkampōla

as usual in Urdu

حسب معمول

as usual in Arabic

as is usually the case
كَالْعَادَة ka-l-ʕāda, كَالْمُعْتَاد ka-l-muʕtād

as usual in Persian

as is usually the case
طبق معمول tebq-e ma'mul

Synonyms of as usual

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All synonyms and antonyms of as usual

Origin of as usual

Ellipsis of as is usual.

Questions about as usual

What does as usual mean?
As usual means as is usually the case.
What is as usual in Tamil?
As usual in Tamil is வழக்கம்போல (vaḻakkampōla). See As usual meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is as usual?
As usual is an adverb.

Words near as usual in the dictionary

  1. as though
  2. as time goes by
  3. as times go
  4. as to
  5. as useful as a chocolate teapot
  6. as usual
  7. as was
  8. as we know it
  9. as we speak
  10. as well
  11. as well as

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Adapted from Wiktionary: as usual (page history and authors); as usual (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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