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He remains characteristically confident and optimistic.
She was characteristically upbeat about progress.
In a characteristically tough statement, he vowed retribution for the attack.

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characteristically | American Dictionary

characteristically
adverb
us/ˌkær·ək·təˈrɪs·tɪ·kli/
in a way that reflects the most typical qualities of someone or of something that person often does:
She gave a characteristically brilliant performance.

Examples of characteristically

characteristically
As an informal register, comic strips characteristically draw on colloquialisms, phonetic spellings, etc., to convey oral concepts in print.
This process characteristically has two related and mutually mirroring aspects.
Characteristically these reside in different ministries, which structurally practically guarantees problems of communication, co-operation, funding, planning and implementation.
A characteristically ' open ' pastoral parish, its population grew very rapidly in the sixteenth century, but only very slowly (and erratically) thereafter.
Characteristically, variationists handle these data quantitatively, specifying distributional constraints in terms of a greater or lesser likelihood of occurrence rather than as categorical.
Characteristically, the higher values of do not correspond to the higher values of conditional probabilities of repeat occurrences.
The songs characteristically sing of deceased men as having occupied a series of places that are now being reclaimed by the anonymity of the forest.
Because symbols characteristically have motivating appeal, their power for seduction is strong.
These attitudes were characteristically extended to philanthropical, as well as commercial, establishments.
Nations are not natural or ancient forms of organizing communities but characteristically modern ways of imagining a shared sense of belonging.
Within this framework, of course, the judgment of a person's moral goodness depends on the discernment of what is characteristically human.
More characteristically, the chapters devoted to government provide illuminating sketches of elite politics.
Thus, they characteristically (and justifiably) adopt a method of abstracting away from structural complexities.
But abrupt changes can seldom be anticipated from signals that are characteristically received by the world's decision-makers.
This may indicate that the incomes of budding entrepreneurs are characteristically low.
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