commons
Example Sentences
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Reddit forums and Discord servers act as digital commons, replacing the sense of civic belonging that once came from churches or neighborhoods.
The sum of all this is a tragedy of the education commons.
China increasingly represents the “industrial commons” where state-directed programs combined with new technologies make it an advanced industrial competitor, the commission’s report said.
The Free Table began as a kind of informal commons, a collision point of surplus and need.
From Salon
I’d like the city to think big on behalf of the greater good — the commons, as it used to be called — instead of the individual.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
