commonplace

But why commonplace “Candide” and “West Side Story,” when Bernstein wrote “Slava! A Political Overture,” for the NSO as tribute in 1977 to its Russian music director, Mstislav Rostropovich?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

Typhoon season in the western Pacific typically occurs between May and October, when typhoons are considered more commonplace.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

But such incidents have become increasingly commonplace to the point of numbing us.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

Pesticide and herbicide use is commonplace and these chemicals affect the fitness of bees, causing them to die off.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

Such grandiose declarations were commonplace during Ceaujescu’s reign, for his master plan—to create a nation worthy of the New Socialist Man—was an exercise in grandiosity.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

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

But Eratosthenes was a scientist, and his musings on these commonplaces changed the world; in a way, they made the world.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan