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commonality

[kom-uh-nal-i-tee] / ˌkɒm əˈnæl ɪ ti /


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"With aging, problems mysteriously emerge at many levels -- at the mechanistic, cellular, and organ level -- but one commonality is that all those processes are mediated by proteins," Frydman said.

From Science Daily May 29, 2026

Even on the Middle East there was commonality.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 13, 2026

"It's what the country needs. We need to have peace and we need to find commonality between all people," she said.

From Barron's Feb. 3, 2026

The commonality between the 2021 and 2025 Breeders’ Cup days was that both were run at Del Mar.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 1, 2025

Just because he had discovered a commonality of experience between himself and Ann Atwater didn’t mean that he would immediately leave the Klan and sign up with the NAACP.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

With nearly 200 cases reported in their county alone, the Washtenaw County Health Department in southeastern Michigan is trying to find any commonalities among patients, said Susan Ringler-Cerniglia, spokeswoman for the county health department.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

Yet commonalities remain: One remedy for vampirism, found on several continents, was to exhume the undead corpse and to drink what was left of its blood.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 21, 2025

Different places, similar forces These incidents span vastly different settings—a tourist hotspot, a public health campus, a military base, city neighborhoods, a music event, and a rural bar—yet they share troubling commonalities:

From Salon Aug. 10, 2025

Packham was hoping that by getting a whole range of activists together on a single stage "they would all see the bigger picture and recognise that there are far more commonalities between them than differences."

From BBC Apr. 24, 2025

They are more complex than they were on that walk to the windmill so many years ago, but they still have much in common, and their commonalities shine.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman




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