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average Joe



NOUN
man in the street
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The average Joe won’t get such an opportunity to set the record straight.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 31, 2025

Another venture Mr Coull is linked with is a now defunct website called Empowercity which shared knowledge that could "enable even average Joe start and grow a widely profitable business".

From BBC Mar. 1, 2024

The free market revolutionary as an average Joe, chatting up the workingman.

From New York Times Apr. 5, 2022

This episode is sure to appeal to everyone, from the most diehard "South Park" fans to the average Joe who is inevitably affected by the coronavirus.

From Salon Mar. 6, 2021

As Burrows told the New York Times in 1983, the trio “wanted to create a show around a Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy-type relationship” between a sophisticate and an average Joe.

From Slate Jun. 22, 2020




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