as usual

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Etymology

Ellipsis of as is usual.

Adverb

as usual (not comparable)

  1. As is usually the case; as always.
    • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
      “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.
    • 2008, Firdaus E. Udwadia, Robert E. Kalaba, Analytical Dynamics: A New Approach, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 83:
      [] and, the 3n by 3n matrix M is, as usual, diagonal with the masses occurring down the main diagonal in sets of three [].

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