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[kom-uhn] / ˈkɒm ən /




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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

One of them saw there was ‘something above the common’ in him; but that was all.

From Australian Writers by Byrne, Desmond

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

That they were squatters having no 'pre-emption right,' but holding even that on which they lived as mere 'tenants in common' with all the other tribes.

From The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812 by Barce, Elmore




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