commonplace
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If vaccination rates keep sinking and outbreaks become commonplace, measles could once again become endemic.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
Such access is not commonplace, which underlines how much promise United see in the youngster.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Such back-to-back financings have become more commonplace in Silicon Valley in the midst of the AI boom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
“Extreme turbulence has become commonplace for the sector, but not something that is typically a bullish sign,” he says in a note released Thursday.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
Meanwhile, some provocative theoretical studies have suggested that planetary systems are a galactic commonplace.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
But it is notable that Mr. Bhattacharya lays no more emphasis on these events than on the commonplaces of Charu’s everyday work life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 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
His arguments, a distressed John Quincy Adams wrote in his diary, consisted “altogether of the most hackneyed commonplaces of popular declamation, mingled up with panegyrics and invectives.”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 21, 2019
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
You get nowhere appealing to commonplaces alien to your audience.*
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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