average person
Example Sentences
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Ask the average person what homelessness looks like in America, and the answer invariably involves urban encampments—people with severe mental disabilities or serious addictions living in tents and squalor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
One of the challenges with the current screening recommendations is that the average person should start getting screened at age 45, for at least the next 30 years.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026
The point is the feeling his creates, the paranoia that the average person is powerless against such dark forces.
From Salon • May 24, 2026
As Chester told me, “The system is so extensive, it’s impossible for the average person to opt out of” all the means of tracking afforded by TV-as-internet.
From Slate • May 3, 2026
His father said that if he was to learn kendo more would be expected of him than of the average person.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
