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commonplace

[kom-uhn-pleys] / ˈkɒm ənˌpleɪs /




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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

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

In addition to cars, marvels like refrigerators, radios and washing machines became commonplace.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

What signified was not the tales we told, commonplace or fantastical, but the gestures, the silence of friends as another recounted.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson




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