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Chaparral’s ability to quickly regrow has made such a quick fire return interval commonplace in the Santa Monica Mountains.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

And if household robots ever become commonplace, perhaps a tiny bit of their intelligence could be traced back to their time in my apartment.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Countries like the Netherlands are already embracing glass houses, which could become more commonplace in Scotland.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Anastassia's journey was more dramatic than most, but delays – some brief, others that last for hours – are now commonplace.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

But it is notable that Mr. Bhattacharya lays no more emphasis on these events than on the commonplaces of Charu’s everyday work life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 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

Any form of reasoning has to start from a set of premises, and in rhetoric those premises are very often commonplaces.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith