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routinely

[roo-teen-lee] / ruˈtin li /
ADVERB
usually
Synonyms
STRONGEST
commonly consistently customarily frequently generally habitually normally occasionally often ordinarily regularly sometimes typically
WEAK
as a rule as is the custom as is usual as usual by and large in the main mainly more often than not most often mostly naturally now and again now and then on the whole once and again per usual
Antonyms
STRONGEST
infrequently never rarely seldom sometimes uncommonly

Example Sentences

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This number is routinely calculated from a complete blood count, a common test used to detect infections and assess immune health.

From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2026

Did everyone routinely use the encyclopedia, or read the Steinbeck novel, or listen attentively to Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony?

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026

During slavery, Black inventors were routinely denied patents or saw their ideas claimed by others.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

Estela Lopez of the downtown industrial improvement district, where trash is routinely dumped illegally, wrote to say a county report warned that typhus levels downtown had reached an all-time high.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026

In seasons past, playing for Permian had meant routinely vomiting during the grueling off-season workouts inside the hot and sweaty weight room.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger