He made the usual reply: "Who's ever sure of anything in this business?

When a total stranger calls me by my first name, my usual reply is, "Do we know each other?"

None of the usual replies to these threads ever attempt to look at stats, or grapple with the reality.

He knocked on the same door and received the usual reply.

When asked where they were going, the usual reply was davah (pointing towards the town).

It seemed to be a small and distant reply, much weaker than usual.

Historically speaking, this was the usual reply until the mid-1960s, when the rejoinder 7 Bc4 put the move "out of business".

Stemple was so touched by this that he didn't even make his usual sarcastic reply.

It is the usual reply of employers to laid-off employees, to the effect that all the conventions have been respected.

To this kind of complaint, my parents' usual reply was "Then go find yourself some American parents."