common man
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Today, he suggested, a more common sign of status is spending money on things like yoga classes or facials.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
Dragonflies buzzed overhead — a common sign, she noted, that the water is clean.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025
Lalit Pargi, who lives in Udaipur in northern India, said he wasn’t diagnosed until he was 16 despite having the tell-tale yellow eyes and skin of jaundice, a common sign of sickle cell.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 14, 2023
On Monday evening, with Otis still a tropical storm, satellite images revealed what forecasters call a low-level structure, a common sign that the storm could intensify very quickly.
From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2023
The use of a common sign is significant as pointing to the common origin of the two classes of superior powers that thus continue to exist side by side.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Jastrow, Morris
