lowest common denominator
noun
2
: something of small intellectual content designed to appeal to a lowbrow audience
also
: such an audience
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The centralized inverter must pander to its array's lowest common denominator, setting an impedance that maximizes the panel's harvest of charges generated on the lowest-performing panels.
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IEEE Spectrum, 29 Nov. 2010
Publishers, meanwhile, say the genre represents the lowest common denominator in a market desperate for a bit more literary fiction.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 14 Mar. 2025
This, in turn, becomes logically reliant on the idealist paradigm of Consciousness as the fundamental lowest common denominator of reality.
—Carlo Tortora Brayda, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
Overcoming the compulsions, the siren’s call, the lowest-common-denominator, tabloid, casino effect of everything in a very competitive attention environment where we’re driven toward the lowest common denominator.
—Sean Illing, Vox, 1 Feb. 2025
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IEEE Spectrum, 29 Nov. 2010
Publishers, meanwhile, say the genre represents the lowest common denominator in a market desperate for a bit more literary fiction.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 14 Mar. 2025
This, in turn, becomes logically reliant on the idealist paradigm of Consciousness as the fundamental lowest common denominator of reality.
—Carlo Tortora Brayda, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
Overcoming the compulsions, the siren’s call, the lowest-common-denominator, tabloid, casino effect of everything in a very competitive attention environment where we’re driven toward the lowest common denominator.
—Sean Illing, Vox, 1 Feb. 2025
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