How to Use lowest common denominator in a Sentence

lowest common denominator

noun

• But for that, the industry needs to change from chasing the lowest common denominator, fake scale, and cheap CPMs.
  — Isaac Mizrahi, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• Twitter had a word count, and it’s also just a yelling match that descends to the lowest common denominator.
  — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 6 May 2021
• Where to Eat The usual challenge of dining around Times Square — how to find a restaurant that’s not aimed at the lowest common denominator?
  — New York Times, 13 June 2018
• But there are other ways to spiral down to the lowest common denominator, and then lower and lower, and there’s no relief, and there’s no bottom.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 19 Nov. 2021
• Yet both are so smart and complex in their own ways, refusing to talk down to its audience and pander to the lowest common denominator.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 July 2023
• The drumettes and flats are golden, juicy and crispy, bar-food perfection; the glaze, however, is sticky and sweet, a mumbo sauce aiming for the lowest common denominator.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2023
• This type of attack is an appeal to the lowest common denominator in our public debate.
  — Emma Colton, Washington Examiner, 15 Oct. 2020
• Kids entertainment doesn’t have to be dumbed down, and Kao plays to the lowest common denominator, both in terms of its story and generic gameplay.
  — Mitch Wallace, Forbes, 28 May 2022
• The power of the press was being squandered in an unseemly contest for the lowest common denominator.
  — James M. Lundberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Mar. 2020
• This is not a time for lowest common denominator, watered down reforms.
  — CBS News, 14 June 2020
• The lowest common denominator of the toxic workplace is anywhere that employees do not feel safe, supported or heard.
  — Mark C. Perna, Forbes, 1 June 2022
• The apartment’s living room was decorated in a kind of lowest common denominator of urban style, with a black modernist couch and stainless-steel appliances.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2020
• In professional sports, competing is the bare minimum, the lowest common denominator, the one quality that separates your team from, say, the New York Jets.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 10 Mar. 2021
• The beef and bean filling was seasoned and spiced in a way that almost certainly a legion of food scientists had engineered to reach maximum appeal to the lowest common denominator.
  — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Dec. 2022
• Facing negative headwinds, many businesses instinctively play to the lowest common denominator and see change as a tax or burden to be dealt with.
  — Ryan Roslansky, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2023
• That means the only type of content that is financially viable is the lowest common denominator content that appeals to mass audiences.
  — Yola Robert, Forbes, 19 May 2022
• Affordable to most, a burger and fries spiked with ketchup was a democratic, delicious lowest common denominator meal.
  — Amy Bentley, Smithsonian, 4 June 2018
• Even the lowest common denominator of news — simply being interesting — has been tossed aside.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 20 Oct. 2020
• Gun control advocates point out that state standards differ, and say the reciprocity would play to the lowest common denominator.
  — Todd J. Gillman and Joseph Morton, Dallas News, 6 June 2022
• At its lowest common denominator, life during a pandemic is a series of risk-reward choices.
  — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2020
• Father and son both dislike the lowest common denominator of … anything, including beer.
  — Lauren Delgado, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 June 2018
• In 2016 Donald Trump appealed to a jaded electorate by suggesting that his propensity to donate to both parties was not a sign of lacking principles but instead an appeal to the lowest common denominator.
  — Angela Denker, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2020
• In fact, averages are, by definition, measures of mediocrity, the lowest common denominator, the results of which can be seen in today’s education system.
  — Jeanne Allen, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2021
• The agreement represents a lowest common denominator compromise on gun violence, not a complete sea change in Congress.
  — Alan Fram, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2022
• Cinemas are currently offering a pretty easy program tailored to the lowest common denominator that simply gets the audience only used to event films.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2022
• Nobody is saying the Hungarian rate serve as the basis for a pillar 2 minimum tax, suggesting that the exercise is not about finding the lowest common denominator with a European flagpole.
  — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 27 May 2021
• These are simply unsatisfactory, one and all, with the cheapest ingredients and lowest common denominator of taste.
  — Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
• As a member-run trade association, their position is often driven by the lowest common denominator.
  — Bernice Yeung, ProPublica, 29 Oct. 2021
• In the absence of new laws, American regulators and antitrust prosecutors have had to rely on the lowest common denominator of US anti-monopoly policy: the consumer welfare standard.
  — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 11 June 2021
• So, therefore, lowest common denominator international policies tended to come out the other end.
  — CBS News, 6 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 7 Oct 2024