Pre-emptively?

[Beverly Flanigan]

Indisputably customary?

At 09:39 AM 12/20/2006, you wrote:
>Notwithstanding all the excellent suggestions here, I still don't see
>what's wrong with plain, old-fashioned "totally customary"--or, even
>better, "way customary."
>
>--Charlie
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>---- Original message ----
> >Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 19:46:58 -0500
> >From: "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
> >Subject: Pre-emptively?
> >To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> >
> >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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