commonplace
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definition
noun
bombing has become almost a commonplace of public life there
a usual or ordinary thing.
a notable quotation copied into a commonplace book.
adjective
unemployment was commonplace in his profession
not unusual; ordinary.
example
It had been fed to us for a long time, and therefore, we looked at it as a tedious and 'commonplace' state of things.
It is a 'commonplace' in Germany that elections are decided by the middle.
The seemingly forward question sounded very trite and 'commonplace' in the blunt honest tone she used.
This is perfectly possible for even an ordinary club level sailor - it is quite 'commonplace' not to have to qualify for an event.
His poetry and fiction celebrates the ordinary and 'commonplace' , striving for a transformation that might well be magical.
It's also one that mentions God as a source of inspiration: something that is rarely mentioned so plainly elsewhere but is a 'commonplace' in country songs.
He insists that what he is doing is to configure the 'commonplace' issues of ordinary life.
The latter, a 'commonplace' in the West, is a new concept for the Japanese.
Tales of the 'commonplace' , stories about the small things that make up our daily existence, can be fascinating.
Partly to reinforce the 'commonplace' argument that there will always be a special cultural relationship between Scotland and England and that independence would not disrupt that.
In Rome, assassination would have been a relatively 'commonplace' event; especially for people of the higher class.
If you think buffets are 'commonplace' and boring, just try the beverage buffet.
Then he makes a characteristic move: you see how he is able to invest the ordinary, the 'commonplace' , with mystery.
Dixon is the kind of ordinary hero who had become a 'commonplace' of Ealing films during the war period.
The talent of the comic is to make 'commonplace' events remarkable.
Yet measles, malnutrition and diarrhoea remain tediously 'commonplace' causes of death in all too many parts of it in the first years of the twenty-first century.
He soon discovered that death was a 'commonplace' event.
He advocated that literature should record the writer's affectionate response to ordinary phenomena and 'commonplace' happenings.
Human rights violations are not some sort of other worldly event, they are sometimes very 'commonplace' .
It is also, we must never forget, made from joy and the celebration of simple and ordinary and 'commonplace' things and events.
This approach in Chinese cinema, however, was entirely absent from the films screened in Sydney, which were bland and artistically 'commonplace' works.
Alas, its open expression is now a 'commonplace' .
It had been a historical 'commonplace' to view the long interval between Archimedes and Galileo as a period of unrelieved ignorance and superstition.
So instead politicians almost uniformly retreat to the safety of the platitude and 'commonplace' .
The most 'commonplace' events are also opportunities, life-determining choices made or not made.
After a few more exceedingly 'commonplace' remarks of the same character, she gave me to write down a list of drugs that were to be taken.
This is a 'commonplace' of life in the poorest neighbourhood in Vancouver.
It used to be a 'commonplace' that activities aimed at uncovering truth and knowledge set about the relatively simple tasks of making observations and recording results.
Matches between female boxers have become a 'commonplace' - if not widely accepted - part of the sport.
A 'commonplace' event, one would assume on a hot day.
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