commonplace

They began to employ just-in-time principles, commonplace in big corporations, but unheard of in the fragmented, still old-school car repair industry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Things like frozen truffle mac and cheese and saag paneer are now commonplace.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Going out for a run around the local streets or countryside - which seems so commonplace today - was unusual in the era Brightwell was competing.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

This is a city where neighborhood displacement — whether by gentrification, government or natural disaster — is as commonplace and messy as the bloom of jacarandas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

And then suddenly O-lan came to the door and spoke to them, her voice flat and commonplace as though every day such things were.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

But it is notable that Mr. Bhattacharya lays no more emphasis on these events than on the commonplaces of Charu’s everyday work life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

Eliot’s “fragments I have shored against my ruins,” but came too close, for me, to what Saul Bellow’s fictional Herzog called “the commonplaces of the Wasteland outlook.”

From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2021

“The Other Side of the Wind” is also, for better and for worse, uncannily prescient—possessed of passions that were rare at the time of its making but eventually became celebrated, then became commonplaces.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 2, 2018

His website proclaims his new book, “shattered the modern commonplaces of science, faith, and human nature while transforming and ennobling the mind and spirit of its readers.”

From Washington Times ● Mar. 26, 2018

Any form of reasoning has to start from a set of premises, and in rhetoric those premises are very often commonplaces.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith