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commonality

[kom-uh-nal-i-tee] / ˌkɒm əˈnæl ɪ ti /


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It’s even better if you build them between two strangers that don’t know each other, that now have commonality that has nothing to do with you.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

"With aging, problems mysteriously emerge at many levels -- at the mechanistic, cellular, and organ level -- but one commonality is that all those processes are mediated by proteins," Frydman said.

From Science Daily ● May 29, 2026

Even on the Middle East there was commonality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026

"There doesn't seem to be a commonality in terms of the thresholds for the fines, sentences and the bans across Northern Ireland," she said.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2025

Just because he had discovered a commonality of experience between himself and Ann Atwater didn’t mean that he would immediately leave the Klan and sign up with the NAACP.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

It can take up to two weeks for cyclosporiasis symptoms to develop, so health departments have been asking people who get sick to document what they ate over a two-week period to find commonalities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

Yet commonalities remain: One remedy for vampirism, found on several continents, was to exhume the undead corpse and to drink what was left of its blood.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025

Packham was hoping that by getting a whole range of activists together on a single stage "they would all see the bigger picture and recognise that there are far more commonalities between them than differences."

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2025

Other impulses surround them: the impulse to not be alone, to hear a loved one’s voice, to connect with other people who share your identity group and political commonalities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2025

They are more complex than they were on that walk to the windmill so many years ago, but they still have much in common, and their commonalities shine.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman




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