commoners

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Adam Johnson conjures the watery world of the precolonial Tuʻitonga empire in this fictional saga of sovereigns, warriors, celestial navigators and plucky commoners.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

The commoners now have to pay for something that you used to be able to share for free.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2024

Many Danish and Norwegian royals also send their children to public schools - and it helps that the three heirs to the Nordic thrones have all married commoners.

From BBC • Jan. 13, 2024

It’s nice that Goop is generously tossing cake to the commoners by, among other things, featuring worthwhile non-profit organizations such as Women’s Health Access Matters, the Brooklyn Library’s Books Unbanned initiative and The Ocean Cleanup.

From Salon • Nov. 4, 2023

This allowed knights and nobles to seize land and force the commoners who lived on it to work for them.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz