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

Still, Harrison took more kindly to the common sort than Shakspere did in his plays.—F.

From Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by Harrison, William

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.