commonplace

Things like frozen truffle mac and cheese and saag paneer are now commonplace.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Going out for a run around the local streets or countryside - which seems so commonplace today - was unusual in the era Brightwell was competing.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

This is a city where neighborhood displacement — whether by gentrification, government or natural disaster — is as commonplace and messy as the bloom of jacarandas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

Cuts of five hours or more have become commonplace.

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

Estraven, sweating like ice in the sun, stays slick and cold as ice, answering Tibe’s murmurs aloud in a tone whose commonplace politeness makes the other look rather a fool.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Instead, her autobiography hides the real Spark in a tangle of commonplaces.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 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

“The Other Side of the Wind” is also, for better and for worse, uncannily prescient—possessed of passions that were rare at the time of its making but eventually became celebrated, then became commonplaces.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 2, 2018

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

The wise persuader starts from one or two commonplaces he knows he has in common with his audience—and, where possible, arrives at one too.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith