Usual
Such as is in common use; such as occurs in ordinary practice, or in the ordinary course of events; customary; ordinary; habitual; common.
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Usual Quotations
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
John Lennon
The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
Stephen Hawking
No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
Bertrand Russell
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal
In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.
Alexander Hamilton
The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.
Ella Maillart
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Samuel Johnson
I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.
Shelby Foote
We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what's going on around us.
Thom Yorke
Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.
Jeanette Winterson
Usual Translations
usual in Afrikaans is algemeen, gewoon
usual in Dutch is gewoon, gebruikelijk
usual in Finnish is tavallinen, yleinen
usual in French is ordinaire
usual in German is normal
usual in Italian is usuale, ordinario
usual in Latin is usitas, consueta, solitus, promiscus promiscuus
usual in Spanish is universal, general, usual
usual in Swedish is vanligt
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