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noun

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Recent Examples of commonplace
Adjective
The bundle promotions are fairly commonplace and included in almost every Samsung sale. Janhoi McGregor, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025 Differences of opinion between economists, scorekeepers and analysts are commonplace, as are the heated rhetorical attacks lobbed at the Congressional Budget Office. Phil Mattingly, CNN Money, 4 June 2025
Noun
Tour ’74 was Dylan’s first-ever arena tour—a rock commonplace by 1974 that had not even been imaginable in 1966. Michaelangelo Matos, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2024 Neumann was a lifelong social democrat whose writings evince neither sympathy for Soviet communism nor any whiff of the fellow-traveling commonplace among radicals during the 1930s and 1940s. William E. Scheuerman, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2013 See All Example Sentences for commonplace
Recent Examples of Synonyms for commonplace
Adjective
  • This means that some particles will decay in the normal world while their counterparts in the mirror would not.
    Zack Savitsky, Wired News, 22 June 2025
  • While the district has enough supply on hand for the nearly 200,000 students who attend district schools, many of those computers are out of warranty and past their normal lifespan, the district’s technology chief told the South Florida Sun Sentinel in an interview last month.
    Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 21 June 2025
Adjective
  • A lot can happen in 20-plus years: careers can rise and fall, empires can crumble under their own weight, cult fan favorites can give birth to money-minting franchises, a minor horror subgenre can suddenly become ubiquitous.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2025
  • Some have come out of nowhere, others have taken months to catch on, and all of them could become ubiquitous in the blink of a TikTok clip.
    Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • There’s a warmth to the movie that makes its cliches feel earned, not lazy.
    Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
  • Wilson delivered platitudes and cliches at the podium, but ultimately so far, the offense’s play has not been anywhere close to good enough in the open practices thus far.
    Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 5 June 2025
Adjective
  • But then again … Look one more time at the last entry in the catalog of ordinary human stuff that the turtle’s shell is compared to: pottery.
    A.O. Scott, New York Times, 13 June 2025
  • JetBlue Airways flight 312 arrived from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport around 11:55 a.m. in what passengers described as an ordinary landing.
    Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 13 June 2025
Adjective
  • This is an excellent day for business and commercial ventures, because your objectives and goals are clearer to you than usual.
    Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 22 June 2025
  • Did Bill Plaschke ghost-write these letters with his usual accurate predictions/suggestions?
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2025
Adjective
  • Several leaders described the pressure of being both highly visible and easily stereotyped.
    Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
  • Their negative stereotyped reputation seems to follow them like ageism follows older employees or sexism follows female employees.
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Still, experts widely agree that the attack shares several characteristics typical of ransomware events, including a full system shutdown, containment procedures and prolonged disruption.
    Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
  • As is typical, the children were shot from behind, but that could change, as Platell noted.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • Pritzker and Emanuel are nationally familiar names.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 24 June 2025
  • The skills that prepare a child to read begin developing in utero, as a baby listens to the familiar voices around them and begins to develop connections between sounds and the meanings of words in their home language.
    Jenny Gold, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2025

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“Commonplace.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commonplace. Accessed 28 Jun. 2025.

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