Pre-emptively?

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Wed Dec 20 00:46:58 UTC 2006


I am looking for an adverb that I can use (for example) to precede
"customary" to give the meaning "so customary that no one would ever
think of anything else".  Pre-emptively? presumptively?  Help!

Thanks,
Joel

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