common sense
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Researchers have long attempted to organize common sense into databases.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
Reason and common sense may suggest what the text doesn’t assert.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
For campervaners Beate and Heiner Delbach, respecting the local environment is just common sense.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
The ingredients are common sense, not being a crook and having a great client.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
That the military was accountable, reasonable, and was kept in check by concentric circles of regulations, laws, common sense, common decency.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
This contradicts the seemingly common-sense notion that making information more widely accessible would lead to more efficient markets.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
Given Stones' fragility, Maguire would be a common-sense pick, if not as a first choice, then as experienced back-up who has been the course and distance at major tournaments before.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2026
These common-sense concepts are compelling enough that they garner support across the ideological spectrum.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
These were common-sense moves, but now comes the hard part: How do you teach a child to do more than say the words he sees on a page?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026
His skill in dressing these common-sense predictions up in astrological mumbo jumbo not only established his reputation in Graz, but got his salary increased to the full level appropriate for his post.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
