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Along the way, fighters randomly selected captives to kill, usually by an ax blow to the back of the head.

When the Metropolitan Museum of Art acquires a painting, it is usually by an artist whose name is at least remotely familiar to the general public.

Its most important component is its root, a titanium screw anchor that is surgically implanted into the jawbone, usually by an oral surgeon or periodontal surgeon.

The name is the diminutive of "Weblog," an online news commentary written, usually, by an ordinary citizen, thick with links to articles and other blogs and studded with non sequiturs and ripostes in sometimes hard-to-parse squabbles.

But if this exquisite balance is disturbed, usually by an injury, the loading mechanisms shift, the moving parts of the knee are no longer in their accustomed alignment and a "degenerative pathway" seems to open.

A member of the batting team is thrown, or forced, out if he bats a ball that touches the ground before being caught (usually by an infielder or the pitcher) and that is then thrown for the putout to the first baseman, who touches first base before the batter reaches the base.

Custom cabinetry is usually provided by a carpenter.

Usually by a quarter past 3, he is a crank.

Students are selected by their high school, usually by a teacher or by a guidance counselor.

The paradigm imposed, usually by a particular media view, completely disorients the proper analysis.

Almost always the central dance space was occupied, usually by a single dancer at a time.