commonplace
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In addition to cars, marvels like refrigerators, radios and washing machines became commonplace.
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
Use of facial recognition technology for crowd management and ticketing has become increasingly commonplace.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
In the digital age, encountering color versions of movies originally filmed in black-and-white is commonplace.
From Salon • May 8, 2026
Many of these companies plan to branch out into the Midwest and East Coast, potentially making driverless vehicles commonplace in the coming years and decades.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
I felt a kind of sorrow for them: a commonplace whose strangeness remained somehow hidden from my incurious fellows.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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