as usual

English

Etymology

Ellipsis of as is usual.

Adverb

as usual (not comparable)

1. As is usually the case.

   Synonyms: as per usual, generally, typically, usually, normally, most of the time

   Antonyms: unusually; unprecedentedly; surprisingly (often antonymous)

   Coordinate term: as always

   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; […]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.

   • 2008, Firdaus E. Udwadia, Robert E. Kalaba, Analytical Dynamics: A New Approach, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 83:

     […] and, the 3n by 3n matrix M is, as usual, diagonal with the masses occurring down the main diagonal in sets of three […].

Translations

as is usually the case

• Albanian: si zakonisht
• Arabic: كَالْعَادَة (ka-l-ʕāda)
• Belarusian: як звыча́йна (jak zvyčájna)
• Catalan: com de costum
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 照常 (zh) (zhàocháng)

• Esperanto: kiel kutime
• Finnish: kuten tavallista
• French: comme d’habitude, comme d’hab (fr), comme d’ordinaire, comme de coutume
• German: wie üblich, wie gewöhnlich
• Greek: ως συνήθως (os syníthos)
• Hebrew: כָּרָגִיל (karagíl)
• Icelandic: að venju, eins og vant er (is)
• Italian: come al solito
• Japanese: いつものように (itsumo no yō ni), 平常通り (へいじょうどおり, heijōdōri), 例の如く (れいのごとく, rei no godoku)
• Korean: 평소처럼 (pyeongsocheoreom), 평상시처럼 (pyeongsangsicheoreom), 늘 그렇듯 (neul geureoteut)
• Old English: swā ġewunelīċ
• Persian: طبق معمول (tebq-e ma'mul)
• Polish: jak zwykle, jak zazwyczaj
• Portuguese: como de costume
• Romanian: ca de obicei
• Russian: как обы́чно (kak obýčno)
• Spanish: como de costumbre, como siempre, como es habitual
• Swedish: som vanligt
• Ukrainian: як звича́йно (jak zvyčájno)
• Welsh: fel arfer