commons
Example Sentences
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The sum of all this is a tragedy of the education commons.
MacFeely has come to think of the issue as a tragedy of the commons.
From New York Times
Hardy Park is the town commons for the Foxhall neighborhood and must be preserved, in its entirety.
From Washington Post
"It's the classic tragedy of the commons," says Heidi Pearson, a professor of marine biology at the University of Alaska Southeast, a few miles from Juneau.
From BBC
I believe smaller communities who have attempted to retain a precapitalist idea of the commons are the last stronghold.
From Seattle Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
