NOUN | commonplace | commonplaces | |
SYNO | banality | bromide | cliche | ... |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- Amputation was commonplace, even when unnecessary, and care quite rudimentary.
- A commonplace method of mortgage acceleration is a so-called bi-weekly payment plan, in which half of the normal calendar monthly payment is made every two weeks, so that 13/12 of the yearly amount due is paid per annum.
- During the 20th century direct-buried cable became commonplace.
- Sir Alfred was the owner of the poet Robert Burns's "First Commonplace Book 1783–1785" manuscript volume that he had inherited from William Law of Honresfield, Lancashire, his uncle.
- Gloss paint is commonplace in the automotive industry for car bodies.
- In the form of fortified villages or camps, "bomas" were commonplace in Central Africa in the 18th and 19th century.
- Edgar Allan Poe famously remarked on Cheever: "He is much better known, however, as the editor of "The Commonplace Book of American Poetry", a work which has at least the merit of not belying its title, and "is" exceedingly commonplace".
- They are commonplace in west coast bungalows. Elsewhere in the United States other strategies were used for cool storage of food items.
- Natural outgassing is commonplace in comets.
- Bogong has particularly wet winters with snowfalls commonplace.
- By the 1930s, tuna sushi was commonplace in Japan.
- It is commonplace for students to move a recess following voting.
- A phone-sync (also known as a tape-sync, a simul-rec, or a double-ender) was a technique used to conduct televised interviews over long distances in the 1980s before satellite television became commonplace, in order to provide video to what would otherwise be an audio-only interview.
- John Locke appended his indexing scheme for commonplace books to a printing of his "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding".
- Prostitution in Togo is legal and commonplace.
- Milk products are also commonplace in the country's cuisine, due to an expansive dairy industry.
- Her writings were characterized as commonplace in character.
- Slam-door EMU and DMU trains were commonplace ever since the introduction of electrification.
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