commonplace
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He must change a culture in which defeats like this have become commonplace.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
But why commonplace “Candide” and “West Side Story,” when Bernstein wrote “Slava! A Political Overture,” for the NSO as tribute in 1977 to its Russian music director, Mstislav Rostropovich?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Part of this trend can be attributed to hybrids becoming more commonplace, by choice or by default.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
But such incidents have become increasingly commonplace to the point of numbing us.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
She was now on the maternity ward, and every day brought commonplace miracles, as well as moments of drama or hilarity.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Many of Fiedler’s ideas, exciting when they first appeared, are now commonplaces, while the critic himself has been largely forgotten.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Eliot’s “fragments I have shored against my ruins,” but came too close, for me, to what Saul Bellow’s fictional Herzog called “the commonplaces of the Wasteland outlook.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2021
His arguments, a distressed John Quincy Adams wrote in his diary, consisted “altogether of the most hackneyed commonplaces of popular declamation, mingled up with panegyrics and invectives.”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 21, 2019
His website proclaims his new book, “shattered the modern commonplaces of science, faith, and human nature while transforming and ennobling the mind and spirit of its readers.”
From Washington Times ● Mar. 26, 2018
In the use of commonplaces, you can see where logos and ethos intersect.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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