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

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

I am the most usual, common sort of woman, who must have someone in love with her and be in love.

From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas

Religious, moral and economic forces had acted upon serfdom, the more common sort of slavery in Europe, and aided by the resulting increase of vigor among the serfs themselves, had disintegrated it.

From The Negro and the elective franchise. A Series Of Papers And A Sermon (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 11.) by Cook, Charles C.