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The most common complaint heard from high-tech corporate executives is that they can’t find enough trained candidates to fulfill their needs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Poorly managed fires of this type are exacerbated by illicit practices such as deforestation, which is common in areas where illegal mining occurs.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
And as he entered Downing Street on Monday, he called for a "new national sense of unity, of common purpose and positivity".
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Or take the more common example of early- to midstage dementia patients.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
I can see the denial going to war with Tano’s common sense.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
He’s been called a thief, a benefactor, a commoner, a lord, a killer and a hero.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
One compares her to baseball star Shohei Ohtani, another praises her as a "commoner prime minister".
From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026
When Mette-Marit married into the family as a commoner, her son was already four years old.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 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
And he is a commoner, a yeoman, so I don’t look for him among the gentlemen.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
"Melanoma, the most dangerous skin cancer, is now the fifth commonest cancer in the UK."
From BBC ● May 26, 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
“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
One of the commonest forms of tree-blindness consists of a failure to look carefully at each branch of a coordination.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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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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