the common people
Example Sentences
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It’s playing with fire, and the common people will not be unscathed.
From Slate • May 15, 2026
Mencken famously said, “is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025
Mencken once said, “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2024
It is the common people who are suffering, she told me, in tears.
From BBC • May 6, 2024
Being in high school, she knew something of parliamentary procedure, and thought it might be a good idea to have the chairman represent the common people.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
