customary
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That “would be a dramatic departure from the customary understanding of ‘waters of the United States,’” said Royal Gardner, a professor at Stetson University who has written a history of this debate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
"As the number of private lodging businesses has risen, complaints and troubles around them have increased," the official said on customary condition of anonymity.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
The customary roar of approval from Labour MPs followed as he took his seat.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
The gag-filled comedy overflows with wackiness, as is customary for “Looney Tunes,” but also, and perhaps less expectedly, poignancy galore.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
It was customary for those who completed a profitable sponge-diving expedition to spend weeks, even months, celebrating their success.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
His Antiquities of Teutonic Law have shown that the codes of the Lombards, Franks, and Goths were not mere savage, brutal customaries, based, as had been supposed, on the absence of all law and right.
From Popular Tales from the Norse by George Webbe Dasent
Under date August, 1569, in the accounts of the High Treasurer there is an entry, where the "customaries of Ochterairder" are mentioned along with those of St. Andrews.
From Chronicles of Strathearn by W. B. Macdougall
Vocabulary lists containing customary
"The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak, Part Six
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