commonplace

Things like frozen truffle mac and cheese and saag paneer are now commonplace.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

And the reallocation of medals has become commonplace in athletics as a result of positive drugs tests that can emerge long after events have taken place.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Oracle said that force majeure notices are commonplace in projects like the one in New Mexico and don’t necessarily mean there is a delay or change in expectations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

This is a city where neighborhood displacement — whether by gentrification, government or natural disaster — is as commonplace and messy as the bloom of jacarandas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

A person can take something commonplace like a fence completely for granted until that same person has to try to build a foot or two of it.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

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

Juxtaposing scenes from the life and times of Emily Dickinson with sounds from contemporary culture, it generates new energy from melodramatic commonplaces.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 10, 2019

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