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His film takes a bird’s-eye approach to conflict, carefully studying how the systems set in place for our common good, on either side of the party or religious lines, can cause plenty of damage, too.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
Soon the two couples are intertwined, each looking to find some common ground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Senior coroner Richard Travers said: "I am not satisfied, on the basis of the evidence provided, that granting anonymity is justified by reference to common law principles of fairness."
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Eight of the 10 places where concessions are most common are in the Sun Belt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
When the company “could not or would not, for lack of common sense … follow all the directions,” Leah brought her hosts, and a few more experienced believers, into an adjoining bathroom.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
Harald had been seen as a down to earth "people's king" who had helped to modernise the monarchy, broken with tradition by marrying a commoner and served as a unifying figure.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
The fugitive Aegon experienced what it was like to be a boot-licking commoner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Next to exes like Madonna and Daryl Hannah, she was a commoner, a Calvin Klein stylist who somehow snared the heart of an American prince.
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
She would also be very surprised to see that a commoner is our president.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
"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
This last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address (1801)
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