routinely

adverb

rou·​tine·​ly rü-ˈtēn-lē 

ˈrü-ˌtēn-

: as a matter of regular occurrence

Airlines routinely sell tickets to more people than the plane can seat, counting on several people not to arrive.

—Andrew Victor

… he routinely slept with one arm dangling off the side of his bed and his feet kicked free of the sheets.

—Holly Black

Examples of routinely in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But the human brain routinely does this work nearly instantaneously based on the language’s grammatical rules, says linguist Andrea E. Martin of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands. —Gayoung Lee, Scientific American, 14 Apr. 2025

Or that graphing calculators bought for $5, routinely resell for $30 during back-to-school season? —Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025

During pre-game lineup announcements at Allianz Field, Boxall’s name routinely draws one of the loudest vocal endorsements from the team’s supporters. —Jeff Rueter, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025

New apparatus is routinely ordered to keep the fleet within that lifespan. —Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1858, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for routinely

• cleanly
• greenly
• keenly
• meanly
• queenly