commonplace

Countries like the Netherlands are already embracing glass houses, which could become more commonplace in Scotland.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

He’s the one American wanderer who escapes Pamplona alone, returning to that same existence that he once found so commonplace.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Things like frozen truffle mac and cheese and saag paneer are now commonplace.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

“It’s easy. You barely know what’s happening when you’re under. It’s only when you resurface that you even know what you said. I went under when I was a kid. It’s pretty commonplace in Candor.”

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth

Many of Fiedler’s ideas, exciting when they first appeared, are now commonplaces, while the critic himself has been largely forgotten.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 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

Any form of reasoning has to start from a set of premises, and in rhetoric those premises are very often commonplaces.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith