How to Use business as usual in a Sentence

business as usual

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  • In the meantime, things will be business as usual at the Newport plant.
    — The Enquirer, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Though for the most part the schedule is very much business as usual, there are a few surprises.
    — Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Of course, having the staff of a successful team plundered is business as usual in the NFL.
    — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 1 Feb. 2024
  • April 8 will be business as usual for most — if not all — Arizona schools.
    — Nick Sullivan, The Arizona Republic, 22 Mar. 2024
  • This year will look more like business as usual, Nadella wrote.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 10 May 2023
  • For now, Lezama just wants to return to business as usual.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Now, Treasury will try to quickly get back to business as usual.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 2 June 2023
  • But according to Good, that’s just business as usual for the Greyhounds.
    — Brett Friedlander, The Indianapolis Star, 4 June 2023
  • But declaring an end to the emergency doesn’t mean a return to business as usual.
    — Marian Moser Jones, Fortune Well, 11 May 2023
  • One, business as usual is easier for some of these guys.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
  • If Gaetz fails to vacate the speakership, the House is likely to move forward, business as usual.
    — Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Grande has not commented on the news and has kept her social media business as usual.
    — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Yet the preliminary days of this past race week were anything but business as usual.
    — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 19 Nov. 2023
  • But its path forward lately looks more like business as usual.
    — Nitasha Tiku, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Those were now disappearing, but that might be more about a return to business as usual.
    — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 4 May 2023
  • But even as Hollywood looks to put all that in the rearview mirror and get back to business as usual, the landscape remains treacherous.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 23 Dec. 2023
  • On the girls side, the sweep, while not unexpected, isn’t exactly business as usual.
    — Steve Brand, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2024
  • Since Mother's Day, William has carried on with royal business as usual.
    — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Services Amid the Sirens • Two years into the war, many salons in central and eastern Ukraine have almost returned to business as usual.
    — Sophia Panych, Allure, 22 Feb. 2024
  • That was taken as a sign that China, if not exactly back to business as usual, was moving in the right direction.
    — Jeanny Yu, Bloomberg.com, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Some of the top brick and mortar locations have closed their doors in honor of Easter, while others are going about business as usual.
    — Chris Sims, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Still, some locations were getting back to business as usual.
    — Shirley Zhao, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Folks were given the option of 1) coming back to business as usual, or 2) only post John Oliver content.
    — Vulture, 18 June 2023
  • Survivors still face a long road to recovery, even as businesses rush to return to business as usual.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Outside of that, this is just three times as much business as usual with one third the amount of production-company commitment.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The posts that followed were business as usual, with the Grammy winner showing followers her Chick-fil-A order.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 5 Dec. 2023
  • And your argument is that overshoot just provides a cover for business as usual?
    — David Marchese Photo Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2024
  • That, however, felt anything but business as usual this disruptive year for the L.A. Phil and Dudamel.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
  • In each of these movies, the villain isn’t some evil mastermind but an industrial force going about business as usual.
    — Ella Riley-Adams, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Swayne said people should not dismiss that kind of legislation as business as usual.
    — Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 7 Aug. 2023

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