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The practice is most common among younger, digital-native audiences, who each year become a larger and larger share of sports fans.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Peter Finn, who serves as the Teamsters’ vice president at-large, said that truck driving is the most common job for men without a college degree in the country.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

“It’s a foundational study about the chemistry of plastics interacting with the most common chemical, water, and it’s important because it really does show that these things are capable of generating hydroxyl radicals,” Campen said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Their findings revealed an unexpected trend: under certain climate conditions that could become more common in the future, forest soils can actually increase the amount of methane they remove from the atmosphere.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

These cases are not common, but the Damasios have seen a dozen patients with many of the same symptoms as Phineas.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

He broke with tradition by marrying a commoner, Queen Sonja, and served as a unifying figure at Norway's most difficult moments.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

The fugitive Aegon experienced what it was like to be a boot-licking commoner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

JKF Jr. was the scion of American political royalty, and Bessette was the commoner who won his heart by side-eyeing his fame.

From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2026

One compares her to baseball star Shohei Ohtani, another praises her as a "commoner prime minister".

From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026

By a similar process in German, the rarer term, Naturgesetz, comes to mean primarily law of nature, while the commoner term, Naturrecht, continues to mean natural law.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

"Melanoma, the most dangerous skin cancer, is now the fifth commonest cancer in the UK."

From BBC ● May 26, 2026

So-called hyperemesis gravidarum is the commonest cause of admission to hospital of women in the first three months of pregnancy.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 13, 2023

“When someone asks what new or exciting birds I have seen on my morning walk, I smile and answer with delight as I name the commonest birds,” she writes.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2022

Rampant, unchecked militarism, as historian Arnold Toynbee noted, "has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations."

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2022

Over every roof and path hung the boughs of the hemmens, the commonest tree of Winter, a stout conifer with thick pale-scarlet needles.

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