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commonplace

[kom-uhn-plays] / ˈkɒm ənˌpleɪs /




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Bugs that let hackers gain remote control of internet-facing systems are becoming commonplace, said Matt Suiche, AI cybersecurity lead at security firm Tolmo.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

"As hacking techniques become increasingly intelligent, sophisticated and commonplace with the development of artificial intelligence, existing security systems centred on inspections and responses after incidents have revealed clear limitations," he said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

Chaparral’s ability to quickly regrow has made such a quick fire return interval commonplace in the Santa Monica Mountains.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

And if household robots ever become commonplace, perhaps a tiny bit of their intelligence could be traced back to their time in my apartment.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Elihu Root said the fair led “our people out of the wilderness of the commonplace to new ideas of architectural beauty and nobility.”

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

You get nowhere appealing to commonplaces alien to your audience.*

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith


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