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typically

  • /ˈtɪp.ɪ.kli/ Australia, Canada, US
  • /ˈtɪp.ɪ.kə.li/ Australia, Canada, US
  • /ˈtəp.ə.kə.li/ New Zealand
  • /ˈtɪp.ə.kli/ New Zealand

adverb more typically · most typically

  1. In a typical or common manner. An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic[…]real kidneys[…]. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three t
  2. In an expected or customary manner. The car, typically, refused to start.

    Similar: ordinarily

Similar: commonly, most of the time, routinely · Opposite: atypically

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: usual, conventionally, normal, ordinarily, characteristically, customarily, routinely, habitually, normally, commonly, generically, usually, general, universally, mostly, essentially

adverb

Similar: commonly, most of the time, routinely · Opposite: atypically

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adv in a typical manner

Españoltípicamente
Portuguêstipicamente
Françaistypiquement
Deutschtypischerweise
Italianotipicamente
Ελληνικάτυπικά typiká, τυπικώς typikós

adv in an expected or customary manner

Portuguêsgeralmente, habitualmente, comumente, em geral, normalmente, em regra
Françaishabituellement, ordinairement
Italianosolitamente
Ελληνικάσυνήθως syníthos

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@misc{typically_2026,
  title = {typically},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/typically},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}