commonplace

This is a city where neighborhood displacement — whether by gentrification, government or natural disaster — is as commonplace and messy as the bloom of jacarandas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

While cars, auto parts and high-end computer chips are subject to tariffs from the Trump administration, more commonplace semiconductors used in the AI buildout can enter the U.S. largely tariff-free.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Cuts of five hours or more have become commonplace.

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

Some have a 7% mortgage rate, while a few had purchased homes during the pandemic when interest rates were lower and bidding wars were more commonplace.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

A commonplace, he implies, can seem to stand as a witness too.*

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

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

Juxtaposing scenes from the life and times of Emily Dickinson with sounds from contemporary culture, it generates new energy from melodramatic commonplaces.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 10, 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

But Eratosthenes was a scientist, and his musings on these commonplaces changed the world; in a way, they made the world.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan