common cold
noun
cold.
common colds
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pluralof common cold.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Antibiotic use is driven largely by common colds, which produce secondary bacterial things like sore throat, earache, nasal congestion, sinusitis.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2025
This upcoming search for OC43’s roots is part of a flurry of research, since COVID-19 erupted globally 4 years ago this month, on it and the three other coronaviruses that cause common colds.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 11, 2024
In fact, he said, even the heavily mutated variants don’t look much different from the original Wuhan strain, or different from other coronaviruses that cause common colds.
From Washington Post ● May 1, 2022
The coronaviruses that cause about a third of all common colds appear to infect people as frequently as once a year on average, said Stanley Perlman, a coronavirus expert at the University of Iowa.
From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2022
A milder and even more common kind of infection is that known as common colds.
From A Handbook of Health by Woods Hutchinson
