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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
Democracy requires interactions, and if we cannot find a way to find common ground, that’s my big worry.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
However, Green Party leader Zack Polanski said: "Sarah Helm is speaking absolute common sense and should be commended for her bravery."
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
I wish he had included the most common kind of pepperpot soup, which was based on tripe and calf or ox feet and usually featured small flour dumplings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
One of the major lessons learned on May 18, 1980, is that landslides—often called “collapses” by volcanologists—are not only possible but common.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
Mette-Marit was not the first commoner to marry into the Norwegian royal family - the late King Harald had already broken with tradition by marrying Queen Sonja three decades earlier.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
He’s been called a thief, a benefactor, a commoner, a lord, a killer and a hero.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 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
As we have seen, eponymy in geography is very rare before the naming of America, and America remained an exception in being named after a commoner.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
"Melanoma, the most dangerous skin cancer, is now the fifth commonest cancer in the UK, the ongoing rise being attributed to sunbathing."
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2024
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
One of the commonest forms of tree-blindness consists of a failure to look carefully at each branch of a coordination.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address (1801)
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