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False premises are embarrassing but ‘not very common’ This doesn’t necessarily solve every problem with snippets.
From The Verge • Aug. 11, 2022
The official did not give a reason for the change but said personnel moves were ‘very common’ a year into an administration.
From Reuters • Jan. 25, 2022
She'd say I was 'dirt common' and vulgar not to speak of father,—that I ought to be so proud of him that I couldn't help speaking.
From Hope Benham A Story for Girls by Perry, Nora
That they were squatters having no 'pre-emption right,' but holding even that on which they lived as mere 'tenants in common' with all the other tribes.
From The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812 by Barce, Elmore
Hamlet," wherein he "protested against the abusive comments on the men-actors of 'the common' stages or public theaters which were put into the children's mouths.
From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Clarke, Helen Archibald
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Schooled
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Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address (1801)
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