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It added that it was "common practice" to carry a clear verbal warning at the start of post-watershed programmes with very strong language, which was what happened for this particular episode of the show.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Part of the mystery around the uncanniest AI foodslop is why it exists at all, given the availability of tools capable of producing realistic-looking pictures of many common foods.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Prosecutors have yet to file charges , as is common when a suspect makes bail.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
“Errors are so common in the system,” she said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
The bowler hat soon became such a common sight at the Epsom Derby that people began calling it a derby hat.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
He broke with tradition by marrying a commoner, Queen Sonja, and served as a unifying figure at Norway's most difficult moments.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
He’s been called a thief, a benefactor, a commoner, a lord, a killer and a hero.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
JKF Jr. was the scion of American political royalty, and Bessette was the commoner who won his heart by side-eyeing his fame.
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2026
One compares her to baseball star Shohei Ohtani, another praises her as a "commoner prime minister".
From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026
By a similar process in German, the rarer term, Naturgesetz, comes to mean primarily law of nature, while the commoner term, Naturrecht, continues to mean natural law.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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
Among land animals hunted, wild boar and deer were the commonest prey, followed by mountain goat and bear.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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