common sort
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“I do think that the board and the mayor have a common sort of goal of ... trying to solve some of these problems that the electorate seems to still be quite upset about.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2025
Now that's all threatened because of scandals of the common sort in the Philippines�election cheating, graft�and Arroyo's handling of them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Why, we are to have a three days’ show of gladiators on the next holiday, not of the common sort, but many freedmen among them.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel
She was taller of stature than the common sort, and very fair and graceful.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.
Between this man of cultivated mind, polished manners, and companionable qualities, and Don Pablo, whose exterior smacked but little of intercourse with "the world," there was evidently a bond of no common sort.
From Mathieu Ropars: et cetera by Young, William
