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It willfully tries to make something seem lowest common denominator, so that there can be a community based around that thing.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
That practice has become so common that it yielded its own name in Khmer—bingvul loy, or “cycling money.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
One common tactic is to present a military contract as a normal job, Vaskin said.
From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026
A common scenario involves an executive calling up a former colleague who happened to work with one of the leading job applicants in the past.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
However, in the spirit of compromise, Duane will use common names of flowers, and I will add descriptions.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address (1801)
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