Alas, such commonplace language also makes wars harder to avoid, harder to end, and arguably more deadly.

Drought, floods, and landslides have become commonplace.

We can, in fact, make it commonplace.

It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

Such successive downward forecast revisions have become commonplace.

The imposition of arbitrary taxes is reportedly commonplace.

Beatings during arrest were said to be commonplace.

He lived in a neighbourhood where screams were commonplace.

That's because it is hard for most people to recognize seriousness, which is rare, but more comfortable to endorse solemnity, which is commonplace.

That's because it is hard for most people to recognize seriousness, which is rare, but more comfortable to endorse solemnity, which is commonplace.

And that was really critical. The mesh network, it'll become commonplace.

Murder, assault, armed robbery have been commonplace in the last three years.

It was not until the mid 1980s that these operations became commonplace.

Trafficking within countries had become commonplace, challenging the usual definition of the phenomenon.

Jogging, which is commonplace, and widely accepted as good for you, is solemn.

Little wonder, then, that political leaders consistently personalize international conflicts. Alas, such commonplace language also makes wars harder to avoid, harder to end, and arguably more deadly.

My father was a (genuine) rocket scientist, and I figured that just as airplanes had become commonplace over the course of his life, space travel would become commonplace over the course of mine.

Europeans tend to feel more positively about their governments than do Americans, for whom the failures and unpopularity of their federal, state, and local politicians are a commonplace.

Such protests against public agencies, employers, and developers are now commonplace (though not always authorized).

But at one time, it was fairly commonplace to think of yourself as a maker.

During the 1990s, and into the early 21st century, however, Leet became increasingly more commonplace on the Internet, and it has spread outside Internet based communication and into spoken languages.

That by itself could make solutions that now seem out of reach commonplace in the future.

Some individuals interviewed informed the team that intimidation and harassment by ex combatants were commonplace occurrences.

Our visitor bore every mark of being an average commonplace British tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow.

Kuru was transmitted through cannibalistic rituals that were commonplace in Papua New Guinea until the 1950 s.

That is particularly the case in the Congo and in the Sudan. Sexual violence is becoming commonplace.

Despite the pictures we are shown daily in the news, wars between developed countries are no longer commonplace.

Anti dumping action against imports from China, Vietnam, and other Asian exporters is already commonplace in developing countries.

For both the seller and the passenger, this has become such commonplace that one hardly notices one another.

This was an innovative method for the time before journalism that relied on first hand reports was commonplace.

Sovereign obligations, such as bonds, are commonplace in the capital markets, and demonstrate strong investor demand and confidence.

What we consider commonplace today such as modern communication and transportation, would have been unimaginable in ancient times.

Despite the pictures we are shown daily in the news, wars between developed countries are no longer commonplace.

Penta band (850, 900, 1700 2100, and 1900 MHz bands), quad band GSM (850, 900, 1800, and 1900 MHz bands) and tri band UMTS (850, 1900, and 2100 MHz bands) handsets are becoming more commonplace.

The use of commercially available and improvised explosives by Al Qaida and its associates is commonplace (see box 5).

And it was commonplace in my household to walk and see my parents shooting up drugs in my kitchen.

In economies where economic and financial crimes are socially accepted as commonplace, the confidence of legitimate investors is severely diminished.

A harrowing predilection for the uses of force had become commonplace, with an equal distaste for the alternative forms of influence.

But it is a commonplace that, particularly in the world of politics, the formulation of problems is the domain of dialogue.

Hostage taking and murder, particularly of town mayors and government officials in areas of, or close to, the conflict became commonplace.

A harrowing predilection for the uses of force had become commonplace, with an equal distaste for the alternative forms of influence.

It's just that their beauty is missed because they're so omnipresent, so, I don't know, commonplace, that people don't notice them.

You just need to step outside, pay attention to what's so commonplace, so everyday, so mundane that everybody else misses it.

If Lebanon were an almost unique case in the past, given the pluralistic features of its society, it is no longer so today. The Lebanese experience has become commonplace, as we have come to witness through the now commonplace demographic movement of populations and the lowering of geopolitical barriers.

That solution is becoming pretty commonplace, from the Aliyevs of Azerbaijan to the Kims of North Korea to the Assads in Syria.