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common people

noun as in people in general

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Example Sentences

Kennan clearly thirsted to be among the common people wherever he found himself.

Secondly there is the fact that the intellectuals are more totalitarian in outlook than the common people.

The Arab Spring empowered the common people and created an opportunity for self-expression of groups and communities.

"A lot of human-rights problems we common people can't solve," she said.

The majority of the forces are true believers—common people with not much education.

It was a habit with him to disguise himself in ordinary clothing and then to go out and mingle with the common people.

Footnote 76: Hughes, in his History of Barbadoes, says that the common people call the worm kitifonia.

The common people continued to make little distinction and did not permit criticism to influence their ancient beliefs.

The devotees and common people are, in the hands of their guides, only automatons which they move at their fancy.

Every religion, in its origin, was a restraint invented by legislators who wished to subjugate the minds of the common people.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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