What's the difference between often and usual?

Often


Definition:

  • (adv.) Frequently; many times; not seldom.
  • (a.) Frequent; common; repeated.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Previous use of the drug is found in more than 50 per cent of the patients, and it was often followed by a neglected side-effect.
  • (2) Two of the largest markets are Germany and South Korea, often held up as shining examples of export-led economies.
  • (3) The pattern of the stressor that causes a change in the pitch can be often identified only tentatively, if there is no additional information.
  • (4) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
  • (5) However, the groups often paused less and responded faster than individual rats working under identical conditions.
  • (6) But RWE admitted it had often only been able to retain customers with expired contracts by offering them new deals with more favourable conditions.
  • (7) These cells contained organelles characteristic of the maturation stage ameloblast and often extended to the enamel surface, suggesting a possible origin from the ameloblast layer.
  • (8) They can rarely be detected spontaneously but most often are provoked.
  • (9) Providers used the tests significantly more often to evaluate patients with cancer risk factors or for new patients.
  • (10) The younger patients more often experienced an acute arthritis with sacroiliitis resembling a reactive disease.
  • (11) Our findings indicate that Turner girls have a functional brain disorder more often than the controls, particularly at the occipital and parietal areas and in those with hemispheric differences most often in the right hemisphere.
  • (12) Lactate-induced anxiety and symptom attacks without panic were seen more often in the groups with panic attacks, but a full-blown panic attack was provoked in only four subjects, all belonging to the groups with a history of panic attacks.
  • (13) During these delays, medical staff attempt to manage these often complex and painful conditions with ad hoc and temporizing measures,” write the doctors.
  • (14) Women seldom occupy higher positions in a [criminal] organisation, and are rather used for menial, but often dangerous tasks ,” it notes.
  • (15) Delineation of the presence and anatomy of an obstructed, nonfunctioning upper-pole duplex system often requires multiple imaging techniques.
  • (16) Damage to this innervation is often initiated by childbirth, but appears to progress during a period of many years so that the functional disorder usually presents in middle life.
  • (17) Even today, our experience of the zoo is so often interrupted by disappointment and confusion.
  • (18) Diagnosis and identification of the site of the leak is often inaccurate, even with meticulous care given to placing and removing the nasal pledgets.
  • (19) He was reclusive, I know that, and he was often given a hard time for it.
  • (20) Also, it is often the case that trustees or senior leadership are in said positions because they have personal relationships with the founder.

Usual


Definition:

  • (n.) Such as is in common use; such as occurs in ordinary practice, or in the ordinary course of events; customary; ordinary; habitual; common.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The distribution and configuration of the experimental ruptures were similar to those usually noted as complications of human myocardial infarction.
  • (2) Oculomotor paresis with cyclic spasms is a rare syndrome, usually noticeable at birth or developing during the first year of life.
  • (3) Histological studies showed that the resulting pancreatitis was usually mild to moderate, being severe only in association with sepsis.
  • (4) This treatment is usually well tolerated but not devoid of systemic effects.
  • (5) Findings on plain X-ray of the abdomen, using the usual parameters of psoas and kidney shadows in the Nigerian, indicate that the two communities studied are similar but urinary calculi and urinary tract distortion are significantly more prominent in the community with the higher endemicity of urinary schistosomiasis.
  • (6) As May delivered her statement in the chamber, police helicopters hovered overhead and a police cordon remained in place around Westminster, but MPs from across the political spectrum were determined to show that they were continuing with business as usual.
  • (7) Chloroquine induced large cytoplasmic vacuoles, whereas the other drugs (quinacrine, 4,4'-diethylaminoethoxyhexestrol, chlorphentermine, iprindole, 1-chloro-amitriptyline, clomipramine) caused formation of lamellated or crystalloid inclusions as usually seen in drug-induced lipidosis.
  • (8) Transformed mammalian cells express both the usual NADP-dependent trifunctional methylenetetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase-cyclohydrolase-synthetase as well as the bifunctional NAD-dependent methylenetetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase-cyclohydrolase.
  • (9) The main clinical symptom was pain, usually sciatica, while neurological symptoms were less common than they are in adults.
  • (10) The assumption was also corroborated using reagents from a family in which DR3 and DQw2 were not found in the usually described linkage.
  • (11) Responses to a monthly survey of 450-500 surveyors (usually 250-300 reply).
  • (12) Such complications as intracerebral haematoma or meningeal haemorrhage may occur during the usually benign course of the disease.
  • (13) Damage to this innervation is often initiated by childbirth, but appears to progress during a period of many years so that the functional disorder usually presents in middle life.
  • (14) The fall of a tyrant is usually the cause of popular rejoicing followed by public vengeance.
  • (15) The Pakistan government, led as usual by a general, was anxious to project the army's role as bringers of order to a country that was sliding quickly towards civil war.
  • (16) 16 tube (usually a Baker tube) was inserted by gastrostomy and advanced distally into the colon.
  • (17) The presenting feature was an anaemia unresponsive to usual therapy.
  • (18) Therefore, we examined the relationship between the usual number of drinks consumed per occasion and the incidence of fatal injuries in a cohort of US adults.
  • (19) I usually use them as a rag with which to clean the toilet but I didn’t have anything else to wear today because I’m so fat.” While this exchange will sound baffling to outsiders, to Brits it actually sounds like this: “You like my dress?
  • (20) Benign and malignant epithelial and soft tissue tumors of the skin were usually negatively stained with MoAb HMSA-2.