common speech
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District Judge Lewis Kaplan oversaw the Carroll case and ruled last year that Trump's actions met the definition of rape in common speech.
From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2024
In a part of the world where biblical language often finds its way into common speech, some people speak of the week’s events in passionate floods of verbiage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2023
Word choice or grammatical issues could make Ms. Klobuchar especially furious, not only in prepared text but also in office meetings or common speech.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2019
The Public Theater even tries to equate Miranda’s embrace of common speech with Shakespeare’s in its program note.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 17, 2015
The others all walked around Dragonwings while Father explained things between bites of meat dumpling, trying to convert the jargon of aeronauts into common speech.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
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