denominator

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

I think the common denominator in all of us who love your music is that we are black sheep — the weird ones, the chronically misunderstood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 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

"You don't count medical aid in terms of trucks and pallets; that's not a denominator we use," said the WHO's Reinhilde Van de Weerdt.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

Alone in my bedroom, I studied pictures of intelligent men and searched for a common denominator.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

Surely we can point to numerous reasons but one of the more common denominators of our great heritage, for generation upon generation, was our appreciation for “the value of honest labor.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 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

Cool Hand Luke, Brubaker, The Shawshank Redemption, and many others paint melodramatic pictures of prison life that have some common denominators.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover