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routine

Done like it is a routine. Hackneyed, shop-worn. He showed little interest in the flute sonata and played it in a routine manner.

routine

The normal way of doing something A set of actions used to perform a trick s all use the same routine to pull the rabbit out of the hat.

routine

an unvarying or habitual method or procedure (= act, number) a short theatrical performance that is part of a longer program he did his act three times every evening she had a catchy little routine it was one of the best numbers he ever did (= everyday, quotidian) found in the ordinary course of events a placid everyday scene it was a routine day there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute — Anita Diamant a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program

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Simple sentences

They know the routine.
Boredom, routine, and lack of curiosity are the greatest enemies of our brain.
Is that your daily routine now?
My wife is getting tired of the daily routine.
I follow my routine every day.
I am tired of the day-to-day routine of life.
It's pretty routine.
It's routine procedure.
We expected the routine, but we got the extraordinary.
I've changed my daily routine.
The team of choreographers labored over designing a routine.

Movie subtitles

Routine maintenance.
And when I looked into the clinic records -- the records, I might add, that you're so particular about -- you've missed three routine check-ups in as many weeks.
I know the routine well.
Listen, girls, you got a routine to learn here, you understand?
Well, I wouldn't mind, if I could only get that routine set.
What bothers me is that routine.
And your dance routine?
I know, but you've upset my entire routine.
How's your routine, Mary?
This sort of thing will be daily routine.
I'll figure out a routine for you that'll kill them.
Routine! Routine! Routine!
Mostly service routine.
But you must be prepared. This will be daily routine.
It's getting to be a regular routine.
You won't do what? I won't go back to that silly old routine.
I see. No sentiment. Just the routine.
Oh, Sir Ronald, even though I'm convinced that the threat means nothing and that a routine police guard would be quite adequate, you can depend on me.
Just routine.
OK, Charlie, give me the routine over here.
That wasn't very nice, letting me go through the whole routine.
How do you expect me to run a store with you maniacs destroying priceless antiques insulting customers, disturbing the general routine?
Miss Townsend, I've been away so long. I don't know your routine.
I'm sorry. But I don't know that part of the routine.
You know that dance routine. - That's right.
Doing a complete dance routine with your new partner and you.
Oh, sorry, Sister. Routine maintenance.
I'm just part of his routine, like his paints and brushes.
I know your routine better than you do yourself.
You mean, it gets to be sort of a. routine?
Yes, as a matter of routine.
Sorry to have bothered you this way, but that's the routine.
Well, he's examining the boat now. Purely as a matter of routine, you know.
Routine. Just routine.
After that it's just routine.
Most of it's just routine.

News and current affairs

Too many valid choices are ignored or skirted through the routine of short-cuts.
LDP lawmakers and mandarins developed a routine in which mandarins drafted cabinet-sponsored bills, LDP lawmakers checked the bills, and the two together finalized legislative drafts before they were introduced to the Diet (parliament).
Skill-biased technological change, which has automated routine work while boosting demand for highly educated workers with at least a college degree.
But the good news was limited, because NATO addressed only a routine agenda.
Though some routine practices have emerged as international capital markets have grown, they remain ad hoc.
Building these routine immunization systems has already helped us to eradicate diseases like polio and all but one type of measles.
For most of modern history, relatively inexpensive public health precautions, such as providing clean drinking water and routine vaccinations, have been the main factor pushing up life expectancy.
As of the mid-1980's, there were more than 300,000 cases of polio per year worldwide, despite the disease's virtual elimination in the richest countries, where vaccination was routine.
Perhaps the greatest accomplishment of capitalism was in transforming the workplace from one of routine, and thus boredom, into one of change, mental stimulus, challenge, problem solving, exploration, and sometimes discovery.
Although the World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended including the hepB vaccine in routine immunization since 1992, its high price initially hindered its uptake in some developing countries.
By including the hepB vaccine as part of a pentavalent (five in one) vaccine, the Alliance has already facilitated its delivery to children in 70 countries as part of routine immunizations.
Such claims are vastly overstated, the beginnings are relatively minor-privatizing telecoms is accomplished in every third world country and does not make them rich overnight; getting on the Internet is routine from Bolivia to China.
In the midst of a major employment crisis, technology continues to reduce the labor needed for mass production, while the automation of routine legal and accounting tasks is hollowing out that sector of the job market as well.
Government should focus on long-term, risky research (where the risk is to projects, not to people), and the private sector should focus on delivering services that are already well understood and ready to be handled in a routine way.
Without the National Security Council and the Domestic Policy Council, the US president would have no routine way to control and coordinate different bureaucracies.
In most of these countries, democratic development has not yet reached a point where a change in government is a routine part of political life and can take place without risking the country's stability.
NEW YORK - The horror has become almost routine.
In business and investing, choices under conditions of uncertainty are made all the time, and mistakes are routine.
But the controversial legislation to outlaw Taiwanese secession has proved anything but routine.
Multi-million dollar bonuses on Wall Street and in the City of London have become routine, and financial firms have dominated donor lists for all the major political candidates in the 2008 US presidential election.
Appalled by their daily routine, police officers from the Amsterdam vice squad have asked to be transferred to other departments.
Under Nigeria's various dictatorships, for example, many journalists underwent a rite of passage that most prefer to forget: routine harassment, beatings, torture, frame-ups on spurious charges, and incongruously long prison sentences.
Why not have routine annual meetings between the European Council and the US President?

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