commonplace

But such incidents have become increasingly commonplace to the point of numbing us.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

Pesticide and herbicide use is commonplace and these chemicals affect the fitness of bees, causing them to die off.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

If vaccination rates keep sinking and outbreaks become commonplace, measles could once again become endemic.

From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026

The poet and the critic share an appreciation for the beauty of the commonplace, an understanding of how the everyday can be extraordinary when captured in a certain way.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

He was a commonplace, mean-looking man who might have been an engineer or technician of some kind.

From "1984" by George Orwell

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

You get nowhere appealing to commonplaces alien to your audience.*

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith