Pre-emptively?

[Bethany K. Dumas]

instead of customary -

obligatory?

usual and ordinary?

Bethany

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Joel S. Berson wrote:

>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!

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