denominator

There’s a difference between being a “controversial” comic and appealing to the lowest common denominator.

From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2026

The common denominator for all of the editions is audiences who are more upscale and better educated than the average TV viewer, he added.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

I found, unsurprisingly, that the steps people have taken vary quite significantly, but they all have one common denominator: The greens are cooked—in more ways than one.

From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026

But perhaps more significantly, the 50-DMA is now 35.2% above the 200-day moving average, using the 200-DMA as the denominator.

From MarketWatch ● May 11, 2026

It deflates them, reduces them to the common denominator where they can be dealt with.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

“I try to just take the most common denominators and eliminate those from the menu,” said Paltrow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Now that fires from Pacific Palisades to Altadena to Castaic have finally subsided, thousands upon thousands of residents are returning to a life dispossessed of its least common denominators.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2025

There are some common denominators causing stress on the system that will take radical reform to tackle.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2024

Expanding our knowledge of sleep behaviors across the animal kingdom, sleep researchers note, could reveal common denominators of what the behavior is for at the most basic level.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 29, 2023

“Is Lexie still doing theatre?” she asked, and for the rest of the meal they made superficial chitchat about the common denominators of their life: children, traffic, the weather.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng