commonplace

This is a city where neighborhood displacement — whether by gentrification, government or natural disaster — is as commonplace and messy as the bloom of jacarandas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

The complicated reality behind AI token limits: Employee token limits have become commonplace among companies looking to manage their AI costs—but putting them in place can be tricky.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Cuts of five hours or more have become commonplace.

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

Some have a 7% mortgage rate, while a few had purchased homes during the pandemic when interest rates were lower and bidding wars were more commonplace.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

I couldn't muster up a single commonplace out of the thousand in my head.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Instead, her autobiography hides the real Spark in a tangle of commonplaces.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Eliot’s “fragments I have shored against my ruins,” but came too close, for me, to what Saul Bellow’s fictional Herzog called “the commonplaces of the Wasteland outlook.”

From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2021

“The Other Side of the Wind” is also, for better and for worse, uncannily prescient—possessed of passions that were rare at the time of its making but eventually became celebrated, then became commonplaces.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 2, 2018

His website proclaims his new book, “shattered the modern commonplaces of science, faith, and human nature while transforming and ennobling the mind and spirit of its readers.”

From Washington Times ● Mar. 26, 2018

The wise persuader starts from one or two commonplaces he knows he has in common with his audience—and, where possible, arrives at one too.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith