Meanings
- not comparableAs is usually the case.
Per usual, these agreements prohibited employees from joining class-action lawsuits, though, for the perception of fairness, the company agreed to pay the filing cost of any arbitration, should an employee actually demand one.
2026, Brendan Ballou, “9. How to break arbitration”, in When Companies Run the Courts1 more example
Curious to observe (again per usual) the fatness and good clothes of the collector, and the mean estate of the poor “taxables,” their downcast looks, and all the apparent shifts and wiles they are putting forth to escape the worst outrage that a free man can bear, that is to have his money taken from him under the pretext of the public good.
1921 [1898], Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, Mogreb-el-Acksa: A journey in Morocco, page 74Synonyms: as usual, as per usual
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbAs is usually the case.
Origin
Ellipsis of per what is usual.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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