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person in the street
noun as in people
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noun as in plebeian
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Example Sentences
"I thought he would understand what it was like to be an ordinary person in the street."
If you were to stop a random person in the street and address them as "Dr" you probably wouldn't be far wrong.
“We have individuals on our police force whom a person in the street might not want carrying a gun on their behalf,” D.C.
“Now we have masks, and we know that you don’t need an N95 if you’re an ordinary person in the street,” Dr. Fauci told TheStreet in a June 2020 interview.
“And had he been a known actor I couldn’t have shot in live environments the way I did with him. They just believe he’s the servant because they don’t know who he is. They’d never met him before. And no one makes movies about servants in India. So they couldn’t believe that he was in a movie. They just thought he was a crazy person in the street. That would’ve never happened if it had been a movie star.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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