common run
Example Sentences
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“Cooper’s sophomore film far outshines the common run of contemporary biopics in its artful construction and attention to emotional nuance,” she writes of his efforts in Maestro, the story of legendary composer Leonard Bernstein.
From Slate • Nov. 22, 2023
When you enter their mind-space you pass through an extreme gradient in worldview, a hard ontological shear that separates Singularitarians from the common run of humanity.
From Time • Feb. 10, 2011
As the number and size of fortunes have swelled, the people who possess such wealth have naturally sought means to distinguish themselves from the common run of their fellow citizens.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is thus too specialized a case to represent the common run of Hitler's children, or to prove, in the story's closing suggestion that he is reconstructible, that there is any such hope for them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ruck, ruk, n. a crowd: a press: the common run: trash, nonsense.—v.t. to gather in heaps.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
