seem commonplace
Frequency: 7.09.8 per million words
Used to suggest that something appears to be normal and not unusual.
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Examples (10)
- Smartphones now seem commonplace, but they were once a luxury.
- What was once a radical idea may now seem commonplace to the younger generation.
- For a frequent traveler, the constant packing and unpacking seems commonplace.
- In the context of the nineteenth century, such attitudes would have seemed commonplace.
- Although the technology might seem commonplace today, its invention was a revolutionary breakthrough.
- His acts of kindness were so frequent that they began to seem commonplace.
- After living in the city for a decade, the towering skyscrapers just seem commonplace.
- Doesn't it seem commonplace now for people to order everything online?
- The level of automation in modern factories would seem commonplace to us, but miraculous to someone from the past.
- The artist's unique style ensures his work will never seem commonplace.