common

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False premises are embarrassing but ‘not very common’ This doesn’t necessarily solve every problem with snippets.

From The Verge • Aug. 11, 2022

The official did not give a reason for the change but said personnel moves were ‘very common’ a year into an administration.

From Reuters • Jan. 25, 2022

The next day she would complain of a headache, groan and keep her bed; but within two months the same craving for something 'out of the common' would break out in her again.

From On the Eve by Garnett, Constance

It is concerned, as the ancients had it, with 'that which is public or common', what the Greeks called τὸ κοινόν and the Romans res publica.

From Progress and History by Marvin, Francis Sydney

She'd say I was 'dirt common' and vulgar not to speak of father,—that I ought to be so proud of him that I couldn't help speaking.

From Hope Benham A Story for Girls by Perry, Nora