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Although more common after 65, the condition is not an inevitable part of ageing, the WHO insisted.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
Two thrillers, unalike in style and attitude yet with much in common, arrive Wednesday to television.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
Coalitions would also be required to agree on a common platform and a single prime ministerial candidate - something that many parties, which tend to campaign separately, would find unpalatable.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
SINGAPORE—Regulators in China have found unexpected common ground with their counterparts in California and New York: Humans need to stop falling in love with chatbots.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
I read the worn-out paperbacks in the common room.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
Even if he were simply a "commoner", his past relationship with the Royal Family and the place would be enough to draw the monarchy into the controversy.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
One compares her to baseball star Shohei Ohtani, another praises her as a "commoner prime minister".
From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026
LONDON—It was supposed to be the moment a shamed prince was reduced to humble commoner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
Catherine, an upper-middle-class commoner who married into the British royal family in 2011, had also been plagued by rumors about trouble in her marriage during that time.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2024
Like a rude commoner watching performers on some village green, Hamlet commented loudly throughout the play.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
"Melanoma, the most dangerous skin cancer, is now the fifth commonest cancer in the UK."
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
So-called hyperemesis gravidarum is the commonest cause of admission to hospital of women in the first three months of pregnancy.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 13, 2023
“When someone asks what new or exciting birds I have seen on my morning walk, I smile and answer with delight as I name the commonest birds,” she writes.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2022
Rampant, unchecked militarism, as historian Arnold Toynbee noted, "has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations."
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2022
One of the commonest forms of tree-blindness consists of a failure to look carefully at each branch of a coordination.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address (1801)
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