habitually

habitual | American Dictionary

habitual
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/həˈbɪtʃ·u·əl/
usual or repeated:
Longer prison sentences will help keep habitual criminals off the streets.

habitually

adverb[ not gradable ]us/həˈbɪtʃ·u·ə·li/
She was habitually late.

Examples of habitual

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Miracles are the things that - when the messenger claims to have the message - come about in violation of the habitual practice that has occurred previously.
This account might receive further support if the verbs actually attested with habitual do tended to have action nouns based on them.
The reduced exercise performance may reflect lack of habitual exercise patterns and training background.
Moreover, musical processes cannot be separated from other habitual practical activities, from meanings in general.
This is no doubt due to the habitual transmodal collaboration between the visual and aural sense in everyday experience.
The normal course of events could be recurrent natural behavior or regular (habitual or customary) human conduct.
We pass on to our neighbourhoods, and our habitual provincial connections.
For example, there has been no systematic study into the motivations behind habitual offenders' decision to stop offending and their motivation to lead crime-free lives.
It should not be supposed that jobbers simply appeared in this strike as the workers' antagonists or that this was only and habitual function.
Even excluding the 16 examples in modern t/o-support contexts - interrogative, negative, and inversion contexts - 61 cases remain where 'periphrastic' do is not habitual.
Those who controlled the purges had a hold over the state's habitual monopoly of legal violence.
The differences found in this study were related to habitual stomach pain, loose or watery stools and varying bowel habits.
The conflict justifications focus most frequently on standards, evaluations, and facts, whereas the self-expansion justifications are most frequently concerned with habitual characteristics or occurrences.
All of the above methods involve sonic possibilities beyond habitual vowel-like production.
Short and long-term effect of smoking on arterial-wall properties in habitual smokers.
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