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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
usual
adj
  1. occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure; "grew the usual vegetables"; "the usual summer heat"; "came at the usual time"; "the child's usual bedtime"
    Antonym(s): unusual
  2. commonly encountered; "a common (or familiar) complaint"; "the usual greeting"
    Synonym(s): common, usual
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Usual \U"su*al\, a. [L. usualis, from usus use: cf. F. usuel.
      See {Use}, n.]
      Such as is in common use; such as occurs in ordinary
      practice, or in the ordinary course of events; customary;
      ordinary; habitual; common.
  
               Consultation with oracles was a thing very usual and
               frequent in their times.                        --Hooker.
  
               We can make friends of these usual enemies. --Baxter.
      -- {U"su*al*ly}, adv. -- {U"su*al*ness}, n.
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