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Only a fraction of the earlier models contain rare earths—20% of the turbines being replaced at the Highland facility have them—but they became commonplace in more-powerful turbines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

The average wedding cost $34,200 this year, according to The Knot, and your preference for a more affordable alternative is increasingly commonplace.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

She warned that threats would only become more commonplace as AI technology rapidly improves.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Chaparral’s ability to quickly regrow has made such a quick fire return interval commonplace in the Santa Monica Mountains.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Nothing ever rode the Gytrash: it was always alone; and goblins, to my notions, though they might tenant the dumb carcasses of beasts, could scarce covet shelter in the commonplace human form.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

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

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