They break routines, because autopilot is death.

Recruitment advertisements routinely call for team players.

Loosely managed teams can become hotbeds of distraction—employees routinely complain that they can't get their work done because they are forced to spend too much time in meetings or compelled to work in noisy offices.

Their daily routine followed the rhythm of the natural cycle.

By following the daily routines of civilized human beings.

With the percentage of people over age 65 expected to nearly double by 2050, it's important to weigh the health benefits of screening against the risks and costs of routine testing.

Certainly, there are people over age 75 who have had cancers detected by routine screening, and gained several extra years of life because of treatment

Why do doctors recommend routine cancer screening for elderly people?

How do some researchers now look at routine cancer screening for the elderly

Why do many doctors prescribe routine screening for cancer?

In the garden, anywhere that's not in the office, anywhere out of the house, away from the routine.

After Hurricane Katrina interrupted routine delivery, temporary mail service points were set up.

Regular users take drugs all the time, but they are often able to keep up with the normal routine of work.

This is the start of a new adventure for children—playing and interacting with new friends, sharing, taking turns and settling into a new routine.

What they found was that it wasn't breakfast itself that caused the participants to lose weight: It was changing their normal routine.

And, apparently, that day has come because seemingly routine operations such as knee replacements are now much more hazardous due to the looming threat of these infections.

Her 1919 work, Household Engineering: Scientific Management in the Home, was based on detailed observation of a housewife's daily routine.

Both bills would reduce the rate of growth in annual Medicare payments to hospitals, nursing homes and other providers by amounts comparable to the productivity savings routinely made in other industries with the help of new technologies and new ways to organize work.

He would detach himself from the routines of life.

What about the custard pie routine?

He does routine truck maintenance for the woman.

Andrew Hacker, Queens College political science professor, thinks that advanced algebra and other higher-level math should be cut from curricula in favor of courses with more routine usefulness, like statistics.

Instead, they perform routine and laborious tasks, freeing nurses up to attend to patients with immediate needs.

Trips that many adults would consider the adventure of a lifetime-treks in Borneo, a sports tour to Barbados-appear to have become almost routine at some state schools.