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by force of habit

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by force of habit
owing to a tendency to do something that has become a habit. After I retired, I kept getting up and getting dressed each morning by force of habit.
See also: force, habit


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They were in their thirties, their baggy trousers and shirts so frequently and assiduously ironed that the threadbare creases held together solely by force of habit.
I stayed up by force of habit, but all it did was make me more miserable.
 
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