commonplace
adjective
ordinary; undistinguished or uninteresting; without individuality.
commonplaces
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pluralof commonplace.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Instead, her autobiography hides the real Spark in a tangle of commonplaces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Eliot’s “fragments I have shored against my ruins,” but came too close, for me, to what Saul Bellow’s fictional Herzog called “the commonplaces of the Wasteland outlook.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2021
“The Other Side of the Wind” is also, for better and for worse, uncannily prescient—possessed of passions that were rare at the time of its making but eventually became celebrated, then became commonplaces.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 2, 2018
His website proclaims his new book, “shattered the modern commonplaces of science, faith, and human nature while transforming and ennobling the mind and spirit of its readers.”
From Washington Times ● Mar. 26, 2018
Any form of reasoning has to start from a set of premises, and in rhetoric those premises are very often commonplaces.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
