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Mr. Johnson adjusts the denominator by removing the third-trimester women.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

I found, unsurprisingly, that the steps people have taken vary quite significantly, but they all have one common denominator: The greens are cooked—in more ways than one.

From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026

Szymanski observes that the vast majority of successful footballing nations share another common denominator: wealth.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

It willfully tries to make something seem lowest common denominator, so that there can be a community based around that thing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

Death is the irreducible common denominator of all men.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry

“I try to just take the most common denominators and eliminate those from the menu,” said Paltrow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Now that fires from Pacific Palisades to Altadena to Castaic have finally subsided, thousands upon thousands of residents are returning to a life dispossessed of its least common denominators.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2025

There are some common denominators causing stress on the system that will take radical reform to tackle.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2024

Expanding our knowledge of sleep behaviors across the animal kingdom, sleep researchers note, could reveal common denominators of what the behavior is for at the most basic level.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 29, 2023

“Is Lexie still doing theatre?” she asked, and for the rest of the meal they made superficial chitchat about the common denominators of their life: children, traffic, the weather.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng