commonplace
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“Extreme turbulence has become commonplace for the sector, but not something that is typically a bullish sign,” he says in a note released Thursday.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
Such complaints have become commonplace on social media and sports talk shows.
From Barron's ● Jun. 21, 2026
“Demand is on the rise for the first time since air conditioning became commonplace, so transmission is important to be able to solve for that.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
It is commonplace for someone here, and that includes all the determined immigrants who have joined us from around the world, to say, “I have an idea, wonder if I can make it fly.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
Simple sympathy like this was so commonplace in the University that I hadn’t even thought about how it would look to someone else.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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Many of Fiedler’s ideas, exciting when they first appeared, are now commonplaces, while the critic himself has been largely forgotten.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Eliot’s “fragments I have shored against my ruins,” but came too close, for me, to what Saul Bellow’s fictional Herzog called “the commonplaces of the Wasteland outlook.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2021
“The Other Side of the Wind” is also, for better and for worse, uncannily prescient—possessed of passions that were rare at the time of its making but eventually became celebrated, then became commonplaces.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 2, 2018
His website proclaims his new book, “shattered the modern commonplaces of science, faith, and human nature while transforming and ennobling the mind and spirit of its readers.”
From Washington Times ● Mar. 26, 2018
You get nowhere appealing to commonplaces alien to your audience.*
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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