common sort

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“I do think that the board and the mayor have a common sort of goal of ... trying to solve some of these problems that the electorate seems to still be quite upset about.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2025

Now that's all threatened because of scandals of the common sort in the Philippines�election cheating, graft�and Arroyo's handling of them.

From Time Magazine Archive

One evening, as I sat in one room, I overheard a company of the common sort of people in another, conversing upon serious subjects.

From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Adams, Abigail

Failing these ideal personages, there is work enough of the common sort to create wholesome prosperity.

From The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses by Froude, James Anthony

"We have been sent," said a man's deep voice and not a "monsieur" but a common sort of man, Marise could tell by his accent and intonation, "to see and question Madame Allen."

From Rough-Hewn by Canfield, Dorothy