Example Sentences

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The schools are spread across sectors and wards, but share some commonalties.

From Washington Post • Oct. 29, 2022

“I feel like the commonalties in our existence are so much greater than differences in the surface form of language,” he told me.

From Slate • May 6, 2016

At the first ceremony, Johnson said that he found the political commonalties of the two countries striking, given that their “ethnic and cultural components” were “totally different.”

From The New Yorker • Sep. 21, 2014

These commonalties prove relevant to understanding the role language, in conjunction with logic, exercises on various stages of social and economic development.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai

They ignore the defining fact that film and television, despite some commonalties, belong to practical experiences impossible to reconcile.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai