denominator
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Idol: I saw that band Geese the other day — they’re not playing to the lowest common denominator at all.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026
“First principles thinking to me is the lowest common denominator of the problem in the elements of the problem—so like I think about breaking the problem down to…atomic level,” McNeill said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026
If Gellar didn’t have such a spellbinding screen presence, one might think she was the common denominator factor in all of these failed series.
From Salon • Mar. 26, 2026
The common denominator: Even when leagues investigate aggressively, the current system relies on prosecutors to finish the job.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 18, 2026
“This fraction of which the denominator is a cipher, is termed an infinite quantity,” writes Bhaskara, a twelfth-century Indian mathematician, who tells of what happens when you add a number to 1 + 0.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Vocabulary lists containing denominator
Arithmetic
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Latin Love, Vol II: nominare
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Number and Operations: Fractions
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