Necessary and Routine

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Necessary adjective - Forcing one's compliance or participation by or as if by law.

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Routine and necessary are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Routine" instead an adjective "Necessary".

Nearby Words: necessity, necessarily

Routine adjective - Being of the type that is encountered in the normal course of events.

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Necessary and routine are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Necessary" instead an adjective "Routine".

Nearby Word: routinely

live	live necessary	live routine
good	good necessary	good routine
common	common necessary	common routine
simple	simple necessary	simple routine
Other adjectives: small, big, huge, bad, magic, new, racist.

Corporal punishment was seen by both parents and teachers as both necessary and routine; the scariest part of the day for most kids was the possibility of receiving "the strap."

Source: Useful Notes / The Fifties
One of its signature episodes, "Love's Labor Lost" had ER residents Mark and Susan grossly mishandling a routine delivery (possibly deconstructing this trope, as it's possible that the very reason they screwed up was because they didn't have the necessary ob/gyn experience).

Source: Surgeons Can Do Autopsies If They Want
Heroic Fatigue: We see the hero going through his before-bed routine, getting everything put away in just the right place, climbing into the sound-proof casket (necessary due to his super hearing), only for him to hear a woman somewhere nearby crying for help.

Source: Film / Daredevil

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