common run
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“Cooper’s sophomore film far outshines the common run of contemporary biopics in its artful construction and attention to emotional nuance,” she writes of his efforts in Maestro, the story of legendary composer Leonard Bernstein.
From Slate ● Nov. 22, 2023
When you enter their mind-space you pass through an extreme gradient in worldview, a hard ontological shear that separates Singularitarians from the common run of humanity.
From Time ● Feb. 10, 2011
He is thus too specialized a case to represent the common run of Hitler's children, or to prove, in the story's closing suggestion that he is reconstructible, that there is any such hope for them.
From Time Magazine Archive
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As the number and size of fortunes have swelled, the people who possess such wealth have naturally sought means to distinguish themselves from the common run of their fellow citizens.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It is not very agreeable to walk about in the snow and in a cold of twenty, sometimes thirty degrees; but anything is better than being a governess in the common run of Moscow houses.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas