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And finally, what do George Santos and Steve Ballmer have in common?
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
On its face, they had little in common.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
"Around New Year, we expect to have a common understanding with a partner country outside of the European Union," said Danish Migrations Minister Morten Bodskov, without naming the nation.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
To measure learning and memory, the scientists used a common laboratory experiment called the Morris water maze.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
He tried to start fresh with this new family, but he simply didn’t have anything in common with the Garners.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
The fugitive Aegon experienced what it was like to be a boot-licking commoner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
One compares her to baseball star Shohei Ohtani, another praises her as a "commoner prime minister".
From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026
LONDON—It was supposed to be the moment a shamed prince was reduced to humble commoner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
She may have been rich, but Katharine was still a commoner.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2025
The effect of such an education was that he had grown up without any of the useful accomplishments for living—without malice, vanity, suspicion, cruelty, and the commoner forms of selfishness.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
"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
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
Rather, Button selected their products for BuyMeOnce because of the inventive ways Davek responds to the commonest problem: losing that umbrella.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2018
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
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Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address (1801)
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