How to Use common touch in a Sentence
common touch
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His good nature and common touch helped make the place run.
—Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2022
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And a common thread between Obama and Trump was a common touch.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 3 July 2019
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Despite his wealth and privilege, some say Sunak still has the common touch.
—NBC News, 25 Nov. 2020
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Xi Jinping was first cast as a firm but genial leader with a common touch.
—Chris Buckley, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2022
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The idea is to evoke trust and familiarity, a common touch.
—James Hohmann, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2018
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Wiping down doorknobs and common touch points throughout the day.
—Roy Kent, Houston Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2020
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In contrast to the mousy Ms Tsai, Mr Han is a natural orator with a common touch.
—The Economist, 25 July 2019
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Joe Biden, while no less a creature of corporate-donor Democrats than Hillary Clinton, has more of a common touch.
—Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 11 Mar. 2020
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This was laden with symbolism and the common touch — clearly aimed at boosting the morale of soldiers and civilians alike.
—Sam Mednick, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Nov. 2022
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The evening’s program included a strident speech by Pirro, who praised Trump as a man with a common touch.
—Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
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Asif Zardari, widely viewed as a corrupt and aloof tycoon, had neither his wife’s charm nor her common touch.
—Shaiq Hussain, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2017
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The prime minister is affable and witty, a Falstaff with the common touch.
—Dominic Green, WSJ, 7 June 2022
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Child may have had the common touch on camera, but her background was anything but ordinary.
—Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Nov. 2021
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That alone forced the royals to recognize that Diana’s common touch had connected with people in ways that hadn’t yet occurred to the House of Windsor.
—Danica Kirka, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2022
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People also have to be diligent about contact with common touch points such as railings and water fountains.
—al, 19 Mar. 2020
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That was typical of the man who kept the common touch despite his fame and remained an affable character, fond of life’s simple pleasures.
—Rob Harris, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2020
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The new sovereign, exhibiting a common touch, shook hands and offered encouragement to those waiting to see his mother lie in state.
—Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2022
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During the 1992 election, she was often deployed by the Bush campaign as a surrogate to humanize a president not known for charisma or the common touch.
—Anchorage Daily News, 18 Apr. 2018
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Patterson’s common touch may have something to do with his onetime day job in advertising.
—Laura Miller, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
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Williams wielded his common touch at endless virtual forums and on front porches.
—Matt Sledge, NOLA.com, 12 Dec. 2020
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Unlike Duchamp, whose work can be difficult and arcane, Baldessari is a conceptualist with a common touch.
—Deborah Solomon, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2020
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Despite his troubles, Johnson is still adored by some Conservatives as a vote winner with a rare common touch who led the party to a big election victory in 2019.
—Jill Lawless, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Oct. 2022
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The state also purchased plexiglass shields for every polling location and single-use stylus pens to limit common touch points, Koupal said.
—From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2020
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Cooper instantly noted Andre 3000 is a common touch point when people try to describe Smino.
—Nathan Mattise, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2022
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Xi has also cracked down on the pomp that had previously gone with visits by high-level Chinese officials to the provinces, and flashed a deft common touch to show his connection to the ordinary person.
—Ben Blanchard and Philip Wen / Reuters, Time, 15 Oct. 2017
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The candidate himself would fulminate in his own speech about violence in the streets, but Don Jr. eloquently heralded his father’s common touch.
—Sarah Ellison, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2020
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Despite being an Old Etonian, an Oxford alumnus, and a millionaire, Johnson has tried hard to cultivate a common touch.
—Lara Prendergast, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
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Everyone knows that the barker for the bandwagon is selling a show; injecting a common touch into your presentation is simply courtesy and good sense.
—Jeff Bradford, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
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President Bill Clinton Florida and the whole country have lost a valiant patriot, a man who moved confidently through the corridors of power of many nations but who never lost his common touch.
—Christopher Marquis, miamiherald, 15 June 2018
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To underline his common touch, Mr. Kurz flies economy on state business and walks to work, a novelty in Austria, an affluent nation fond of hierarchy and decorum.
—Bojan Pancevski, WSJ, 25 May 2018
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