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commonality

[kom-uh-nal-i-tee] / ˌkɒm əˈnæl ɪ ti /


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"It's a term coined by the media, used to describe a group of young people whose only commonality is their success," Jon Sale, the businessman's lawyer in the US, told BBC News Mundo.

From BBC Sep. 2, 2026

"With aging, problems mysteriously emerge at many levels -- at the mechanistic, cellular, and organ level -- but one commonality is that all those processes are mediated by proteins," Frydman said.

From Science Daily May 29, 2026

Even on the Middle East there was commonality.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 13, 2026

Two summers ago, the most overt commonality shared by Greta Gerwig’s and Christopher Nolan’s opuses was a release date pitting the predicted box office whales against each other.

From Salon Jul. 11, 2025

He was the only other Black person on the entire squad, and we immediately bonded over that commonality.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

It is possible, though not easy, to balance ourselves in our commonalities.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 27, 2025

Yet commonalities remain: One remedy for vampirism, found on several continents, was to exhume the undead corpse and to drink what was left of its blood.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 21, 2025

Those commonalities help ensure there’s agreement between the two and Ellison, Magouyrk said.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 20, 2025

The commonalities were basically this idea that perfection is achievable, that we can reach God in that way.

From Salon May 26, 2025

Alan Merriam, an anthropologist and one of the founders of ethnomusicology, created a list of ten commonalities of musical behavior after travelling extensively among many different people.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin




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