typically

typically
[[t]tɪ̱pɪkəli[/t]]
1) ADV-GRADED: ADV with cl/group You use typically to say that something usually happens in the way that you are describing.

Typically, parents apply to several schools and settle, if need be, for their fourth or fifth choice...

It typically takes a day or two, depending on size...

Today's organic wine producer is typically a small, quality-conscious family concern...

Female migrants are typically very young.

Syn:
2) ADV-GRADED: ADV adj You use typically to say that something shows all the most usual characteristics of a particular type of person or thing.

The main course was typically Swiss...

Philip paced the floor, a typically nervous expectant father.

Syn:
characteristically
3) ADV-GRADED: ADV with cl, ADV adj You use typically to indicate that someone has behaved in the way that they normally do.

Typically, the Norwegians were on the mountain two hours before anyone else...

Robbins is typically cool in his pronouncements about his future.

Syn:
characteristically

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