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This simple at-home treatment is as commonplace as an apple a day.

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For an in-person conversation, this response violates social convention, but for an online interaction, it is commonplace.

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But though the hell of unemployment is universal, Park’s violent vision understands that it’s also eternal — in this case, so commonplace it could be its own anti-workplace comedy.

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Women's football crowds in the tens of thousands are now almost commonplace, but that didn't happen overnight.

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That might seem commonplace now, but it was a Eureka moment for Goodall: Like humans, chimpanzees not only use tools but actually make them.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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