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An increasingly common expectation that the person behind the counter should function as an extension of whatever digital system we’ve already been using.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
Our critic noted, “Despite a sea between them literally and metaphorically, Europe and the Americas shared a common imagination, a curiosity to explain the unknown, and a desire to make the mystical beautiful.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
This helps explain why osteoarthritis affecting the inside of the knee is especially common.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
This is not a common overtaking spot and from a McLaren point of view it was a move with no reward, only risk.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
He thought that Handsome and Major Puff shared common qualities and might become good friends under the right circumstances.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
Harald had been seen as a down to earth "people's king" who had helped to modernise the monarchy, broken with tradition by marrying a commoner and served as a unifying figure.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
The fugitive Aegon experienced what it was like to be a boot-licking commoner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Next to exes like Madonna and Daryl Hannah, she was a commoner, a Calvin Klein stylist who somehow snared the heart of an American prince.
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
She would also be very surprised to see that a commoner is our president.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
Separate figures suggest that amounts to more than 150,000 tonnes annually – enough to sustain three times the breeding populations of the ten commonest garden species if they relied on it alone all year round.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026
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
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
Rather, Button selected their products for BuyMeOnce because of the inventive ways Davek responds to the commonest problem: losing that umbrella.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2018
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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Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address (1801)
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