Mr. Average
Example Sentences
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Why did I just go so overboard with Mr. Average here?
From The New Yorker • Dec. 13, 2010
Newspapers screamed it, preachers damned it, Mr. Average Citizen swallowed it and was shocked.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Make no mistake as to the attitude of Mr. Average Man.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Like the budgets of Mr. Average Citizen, it was full of unjustifiable errors of judgment, of expenses borne out of habit, of big installments still being paid on past mistakes.
From Time Magazine Archive
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They become afterwards exceptional, they vein here and there the surface, and Mr. Average stumbles over them and proceeds no farther.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 by Various