(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.
Workaday
Definition:
(n.) See Workyday.
Example Sentences:
(1) Without electricity, the batteries on my toothbrush, phone and laptop gradually ran down, and I let the slow rhythm of the sun reorganise my workaday brain.
(2) In February 1978, he lost the title to the workaday Leon Spinks and regained it once again that September – but tiredly, for now the feet were flat, the reflexes dull, the senses dimmed.
(3) FITP emphasizes one Focal Problem, provides criteria for defining it, makes it possible to formulate the problem in operational language, channels free-ranging case discussion into workaday terms, invites the clinician to make explicit a sophisticated view of pathogenesis; including developmental, dynamic, and contextual factors, and ties formulation to intervention through explicit objectives.
(4) Perhaps mine was the last generation to be brought up with the fully inflated version of this idea – that the Clyde's tradition and skills made its ships singularly good – but it was powerful while it lasted and still held sway in 1961, when the documentary Seawards the Great Ships won an unexpected Oscar and thrilled us at the cinema with its heroic depiction of Glasgow's workaday river.
(5) An old bar, Le Comptoir Dugommier is a workaday and yet cosmopolitan bistro.
(6) This diminishes the role of politics in local government and local democracy, in effect turning campaigners and activists into workaday managers.
(7) Nonetheless, observe the workaday clothing, the B-list attendees, and the untropical surroundings of traffic-choked Park Lane.
(8) Johnson elaborated (in the workaday prose of his character): "Prince came on and he's really nice and he told us he was a fan of the show.
(9) In some special cases we found subjects well adapted to the workaday world who could live with briefer sleeping periods.
(10) There are also the duller, more workaday parts of Venice, in which one is introduced to the disquieting idea that the entire city is an occult conspiracy, leading inexorably to death.
(11) A t the workaday offices of bet365, the online gambling company that has made his second fortune, Stoke City's owner, Peter Coates, is reflecting on his club's landmark run to their first FA Cup final, and his own remarkable life.
(12) Visionaries are rare in this workaday world, so we should all be grateful for Saif al-Islam Gadafy, architect, philanthropist, and Libya's leading artist, at least according to the exhibition The Desert Is Not Silent, organised by his own foundation, that opens today in Kensington Gardens.
(13) Candidate Clinton feels different, political analysts and media observers say, from the workaday secretary of state who filled that office from 2009 to 2013 or from the more timidly progressive candidate voters got to know in 2008 – one whose presumptuous designs on the general election left her vulnerable on the left in the primary.
(14) There is also a 14th-century castle owned by Jools Holland and a workaday marina, about as far from Cowes in its social atmosphere as it's possible to get.
(15) Cubs fan Joe Wiegand, 51, from Maniton, Colorado, mused: “Baseball is a wonderful distraction from the workaday world and the issues at hand.
(16) There's a grisly murder, the workaday investigators are stumped, then maverick DCI John Luther comes along and solves it with his finely honed instincts.
(17) They hide their food issues like a dirty secret, are ashamed of them, or simply regard them as a part of the workaday diet chat so common in offices up and down the country.
(18) set its story in the year 1947, pitting workaday Los Angeles private detective Eddie Valiant against the villain Judge Doom, a cadaverous, black-clad personification of all these backroom-dealing companies.
(19) That must be the reason why Donnelly had nothing to say about such workaday themes as the civil service reform plan or relations between departments and arm's length bodies.
(20) The coalition published its detailed programme , and offered a stab at a Con-Lib mission statement – "a Big Society matched by big citizens" – which unwittingly underlined what a workaday document this was.