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

At the same time it is being whispered about among the common sort that you are a traitor to the Islonian cause, and to your father.

From The MS. in a Red Box by Hamilton, John Arthur

This is something far better than the common sort of sensational war-stories.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.

One evening, as I sat in one room, I overheard a company of the common sort of people in another, conversing upon serious subjects.

From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Adams, Abigail