commonplace
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“You’ve got to see that as a contributing effect,” he said, driving listeners back to tunes made long before that technology became commonplace.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026
So, is spying as commonplace in Germany, and is cultural difference a suitable defence?
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang envisioned a future in which AI supercomputers running complex workloads would be commonplace in people’s homes.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 1, 2026
That kind of anguished, not-funny witticism is another commonplace of the American educated classes: OMG, what has happened to this country?
From Salon • May 31, 2026
Where a nova could possibly be regarded as a miracle, a comet was too commonplace an occurrence to be handled in this way, so if comets were supralunary phenomena, Aristotle was wrong.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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