(a.) Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.
(n.) An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude.
(n.) A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to.
(v. t.) To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads.
(v. i.) To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Well known buyout firms such as Blackstone and Carlyle appear in the leaked documents, and Luxembourg investment vehicles are commonplace in such investment firms.
(2) Knowledge of the normal radiographic appearance of ASD occlusion devices and the findings in various complications will be necessary for radiologists as transcatheter ASD closure becomes more commonplace.
(3) That culture was reinforced elsewhere, with female staff told to smarten up, wear lipstick, and some required to attend trade shows where “booth babes” – scantily-clad models promoting products - were commonplace.
(4) Emergency medical response to a scene where hazardous materials are potentially involved is becoming more commonplace.
(5) At a time when the intrauterine diagnosis of hydrocephalus is commonplace and pioneering efforts of antenatal therapy are evolving, review of the chronology of treatment of this disorder becomes pertinent.
(6) According to Amnesty International, the death penalty “is so far removed from any kind of legal parameters that it is almost hard to believe”, with the use of torture to extract confessions commonplace.
(7) Like a great many people in what was at that time an industrial country, I grew up in a landscape that was interestingly pockmarked with successive eras of exploitation, and all of it so commonplace that beyond a mention of its origins, Watt's engine or Crompton's spinning mule, it never found a place in the history books.
(8) Supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias remain relatively commonplace in the ICU.
(9) Rose, a Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design fine art graduate, said she is determined that the rules should be changed "as this treatment is becoming more commonplace for Crohn's disease sufferers and I would not want any other woman to have to go through this ordeal".
(10) The camera’s capers have almost become so commonplace that some presenters just ignore them.
(11) Hepatic transplantation is now a relatively commonplace procedure, performed at many institutions around the world.
(12) Talk about corruption in Russia is commonplace and in our history there have been attempts to curb it through repression.
(13) But although the technology has become commonplace in Japan, where it was first developed, banks in Britain say it could be years before they appear on UK high streets.
(14) Although advanced gastrointestinal cancer is the most commonplace problem encountered by the medical oncologist, this group of diseases has proved exceedingly resistant to past chemotherapy efforts.
(15) But although he says he is against extrajudicial killing of criminals, the record in his city of Davao suggests such killings have been commonplace there.
(16) If listeners treat sinusoidal signals as speech signals however unlike speech they may be, then perception should exhibit the commonplace sensitivity to the dimensions of the originating vocal tract.
(17) The disease started with a commonplace contusion of the patella and rapidly progressed after arthrotomy.
(18) Automation of the assay is now commonplace, from reagent dispensing to automated reading of finished assay.
(19) Complaints that steel products are being exported below production cost (“dumped”) from China to the US and the EU are commonplace.
(20) Those are commonplace tricks to bring pay far below the minimum wage.
Unexceptional
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The unexceptional validity of the autosomal-recessive hereditary transmission may be confirmed.
(2) The house she walks back to, and in which she and her husband, Geoff, live, is pleasantly unexceptional.
(3) In the present study the iron-founding town of Kirkintilloch was found to have standardised mortality ratios (SMRs) for respiratory cancer in 1959-63, 1964-8, and 1969-73 that were unexceptional in comparison with Scotland.
(4) We perceive the circumstances of our youth as normal and unexceptional, however sparse or cruel they may be.
(5) These compounds also proved to be unexceptional in their inhibition of LAP (17-O-, Ki = 56 microM; 17-NH2, Ki = 40 microM).
(6) Substrates with sequences related to the cathepsin G cleavage site in angiotensin I and angiotensinogen, and the reactive site of alpha 1-antichymotrypsin, were hydrolyzed effectively by enzyme, but with unexceptional rates.
(7) It is this part of the operation which registars find most difficult and why we suggested (June 30, p. 773) a different site for insertion in the unexceptional case.
(8) Labour spending increased considerably, but until the crash was still "unexceptional", either by historic UK standards or international ones.
(9) How a 'moment of anger' led to tragic death of Bailey Gwynne Read more Lowe, who also had to establish the relationship between Bailey and his killer prior to the stabbing, concluded that their altercation had been “an unplanned, spontaneous conflict that emerged rapidly out of an unexceptional banter.
(10) It is suggested that these results were unexceptional, except possibly for the failure of the plasma cholesterol concentration to rise when cholesterol was ingested, despite gross differences in diet and many other factors.
(11) The means for all groups were unexceptional, but some of the differences were significant.
(12) The junction region comprises one base pair and the two neighboring internucleotide linkages and exhibits full hydrogen-bonded base-pairing, full base-stacking, and unexceptional stereochemistry.
(13) 5) They had fear of fatness almost unexceptionally.
(14) Three arguments are presented: a) that Darwin, qua scientist, was only interested in species adaptation, an entirely different concept from that of individual adaptation, b) that Darwin's writings on individual adaptation are so unexceptional that it is inconceivable that psychologists should have been influenced by them and c) that the two concepts are logically incompatible since species adaptation presupposes a strict hereditary determinism, while individual adaptation conceives of the organism either as free and undetermined or else as determined by the environment.
(15) The amino acid composition is unexceptional, and no evidence for hexosamine has been obtained.
(16) The testicular involvement was unexceptionally bilateral with occasional differences in the grade of infiltration, slight to moderate.
(17) Williams insisted the information Mulcaire held was commonly used by the media and unexceptional.
(18) Before that, his teenage band the Jades had released two entirely unexceptional doo-wop tracks in 1958 and two years later he had chanced his arm as a solo singer, recording in the perky, post-rock'n'roll style that predominated in pre-Beatles America.
(19) Calais camp: fires sweep settlement as refugees leave – in pictures Read more Describing the tragedy as an unexceptional day at sea, MSF called on the EU to provide safe alternative routes rather than focusing on deterrence.
(20) Rate constants for the other reactions are unexceptional.