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A Marine was standing outside the West Wing on Wednesday afternoon, as is customary when the president is in the Oval Office.

As is customary, the court did not give a reason for not accepting Davis’s case.

One difference between the two initiatives is that Asana has no lockup for employee and other insider shares as is typically customary with a direct listing.

At the same time, it complained that Apple had “dismissed” its requests to waive the App Store’s customary 30% fee on in-app purchases.

The Centers for Disease Control, as is customary, developed its own test, but a lab error made it useless.

“In almost all rural areas of Switzerland, it is customary to eat cats and dogs,” she says.

Such political statements are not customary after a meeting with the president, and Malloy hit back hard.

In a normal investigation it is customary to release a preliminary report as soon after the event as possible.

Robertson came out in his customary camo, and told the audience that it was the best suit of clothes he owns.

It is customary for political campaigns to keep their most forthright views in-house.

It is interesting to note that some other articles of customary export showed large declines in 1915 as compared with 1914.

The next day, a great crowd of men arrived, who performed their customary dances around the corpse.

In January, 1899, a Spanish gunboat silently entered the port without the customary whistling and firing of salute.

Secret instructions would not affect the rights of a purchaser ignorant of them and relying on customary authority.

The school-children, owing to a more liberal educational system, had lost the customary look of apathy.

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On this page you'll find 110 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to customary, such as: accepted, traditional, according to hoyle, accustomed, acknowledged, and by the numbers.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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