commonplace
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“Extreme turbulence has become commonplace for the sector, but not something that is typically a bullish sign,” he says in a note released Thursday.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
As a result, pay packages have stretched into the hundreds of millions, and big-money acquisitions of smaller rivals have become commonplace.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
“Demand is on the rise for the first time since air conditioning became commonplace, so transmission is important to be able to solve for that.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
Hasbro realized that unauthorized iterations of its brands would inevitably surface—as some already have—across chat, voice, gaming and content-creation platforms as AI-native experiences become increasingly commonplace.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
Still, across South America, Nazi and fascist sympathizers were commonplace.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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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
Juxtaposing scenes from the life and times of Emily Dickinson with sounds from contemporary culture, it generates new energy from melodramatic commonplaces.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 10, 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
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