How to Use common knowledge in a Sentence

common knowledge

noun

• There is a common knowledge and taste that’s been in place for years.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 20 Sep. 2023
• As is common knowledge, Davis spent a good chunk of the year injured.
  — Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2023
• The concept of the no-show summer job was common knowledge at least as far back as the 1950s.
  — Bob Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2023
• All of this is more or less common knowledge for anyone with a bond.
  — Andrew Cunningham & Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 8 Sep. 2023
• This is not a secret, this is common knowledge and people are OK with it.
  — ABC News, 8 Dec. 2023
• But in a nation as heterogeneous as the U.S., the very idea of common knowledge is a false one.
  — Sophia Stewart, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2024
• It’s been common knowledge around City Hall that this year’s budget process was going to be something of a bummer.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2024
• The appetite of female spiders is common knowledge by now.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2024
• It’s been somewhat common knowledge that LeBron was hoping to play for whatever team were to draft his son, so the two could play together.
  — Trisha Garcia-Easto, Sacramento Bee, 2 May 2024
• Human beings take decades to learn enough to add meaningfully to the compendium of common knowledge.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Aug. 2015
• Norton’s family says the deaths on his property were common knowledge and gave voters pause.
  — Kyle Hopkins, ProPublica, 11 Nov. 2023
• But then, as the evidence of atrocities became common knowledge, Nusseibeh said, that elation curdled.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
• This may be common knowledge by now, but the trend has only been exacerbated by the removal of buffers such as robust content moderation or trust and safety teams.
  — Brian Merchant, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• Stanton faded from common knowledge, his many achievements—from leading the manhunt for Booth to helping Lincoln guide the Union to victory—largely forgotten.
  — Vanessa Armstrong, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
• But this airline customer service misdirection is common knowledge in the travel industry and among people who know Google.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
• And yet a quick internet search revealed that the tequila worm’s species wasn’t completely clear — despite its existence being fairly common knowledge among the drinking public.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2023
• And, as with any queen, her domestic orbit is common knowledge: the rapper husband with the capitalist hustle and the wandering eye, their twins, the gifted but hopelessly overshadowed younger sister.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2023
• To customer service leaders, these tactics are common knowledge, but so is the reality that these tactics often do not truly move the efficiency needle.
  — Gadi Shamia, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• This is common knowledge to those who hang decals and provide anti-reflective window surfaces to reduce the hundreds of millions of bird deaths annually from window collisions.
  — WSJ, 14 June 2023
• That the candidacy was imminent was common knowledge for months but DeSantis had recently been dropping several hints.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 24 May 2023
• Eventually, the benefits of the routine became common knowledge, and older adults added the over-the-counter medication to their pillboxes without any sort of formal physician recommendation.
  — Haley Weiss, Time, 21 June 2023
• Many ideas about our own bodies that are treated as common knowledge actually have more to do with sexist cultural projections than reality, such as the cartoon image of sperm rapidly swimming toward an egg simply bobbing in place.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Mar. 2023
• The secretary initially responded by summoning a senior diplomat from the Chinese embassy before the balloon's presence in American airspace became common knowledge.
  — Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 18 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Aug 2024