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The practice is most common among younger, digital-native audiences, who each year become a larger and larger share of sports fans.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
Peter Finn, who serves as the Teamsters’ vice president at-large, said that truck driving is the most common job for men without a college degree in the country.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
Electric bill sticker shock is common for customers of investor-owned utilities, but less so for municipally owned utilities such as DWP.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
Their findings revealed an unexpected trend: under certain climate conditions that could become more common in the future, forest soils can actually increase the amount of methane they remove from the atmosphere.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
After her toilette, the proud Madame had gone to the common room and imperiously demanded of a lowly soldier that he go and procure buttered rolls and fresh coffee for her and the children.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
He’s been called a thief, a benefactor, a commoner, a lord, a killer and a hero.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
Even if he were simply a "commoner", his past relationship with the Royal Family and the place would be enough to draw the monarchy into the controversy.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
One compares her to baseball star Shohei Ohtani, another praises her as a "commoner prime minister".
From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026
LONDON—It was supposed to be the moment a shamed prince was reduced to humble commoner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
Like a rude commoner watching performers on some village green, Hamlet commented loudly throughout the play.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
And it is the third commonest type of cancer in the UK - leading to about 35,000 deaths each year.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2024
So-called hyperemesis gravidarum is the commonest cause of admission to hospital of women in the first three months of pregnancy.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 13, 2023
“When someone asks what new or exciting birds I have seen on my morning walk, I smile and answer with delight as I name the commonest birds,” she writes.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2022
Rampant, unchecked militarism, as historian Arnold Toynbee noted, "has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations."
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2022
I had become ... so unused to the sports and games of boys, that I knew I was awkward and inexperienced in the commonest things belonging to them.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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