as a rule
Adverb
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Adverb
- (idiomatic) In general; most often.
- We go fishing every Sunday as a rule, but today the lake is frozen.
- 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:
- His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill; […].
- by and large, chiefly, for the most part; see also Thesaurus:mostly or Thesaurus:usually
- French: généralement, normalement, en règle générale
- German: in der Regel, normalerweise, gewöhnlich
- Italian: di regola
- Portuguese: em regra, por via de regra, via de regra
- Russian: как пра́вило
- Spanish: normalmente, por regla general
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