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common sort

noun as in rank and file

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“When we was put in the dock, I noticed first of all what a gentleman Compeyson looked, wi’ his curly hair and his black clothes and his white pocket-handkercher, and what a common sort of a wretch I looked.

Here we have the most common sort of political aide that every president has had, and the troops are somehow supposed to be on alert and ready to hate.

Although Latin Americans say that violence from street crime is the most common sort, the most damaging to their country, they think, is domestic violence.

Yet even the best silicon solar cells—by far the most common sort—convert only a quarter of the light that falls on them.

It suggested the most common sort of bad experience was bullying and trolling, but that children also received unwanted sexual messages, cyber-stalking and felt under pressure to look a certain way.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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