How to Use commonality in a Sentence
commonality
noun- The plans share important commonalities.
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For me, my place of peace is always back in the commonality of us all.
— Jacoba Urist, Smithsonian, 21 June 2018 -
Shoes without socks, which is something of a commonality here.
— Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 29 May 2018 -
The commonality is that gestures small and large matter.
— Allison Klein, Washington Post, 11 June 2018 -
Decades later, at 56, the brothers are still learning about their commonalities.
— Amy Kaufman, latimes.com, 1 July 2018 -
The commonality — ordinary people with stars in their eyes who walk onto that stage and give it their all, irrespective of life circumstance.
— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 Oct. 2024 -
Before this, people of Asian ancestry identified with their ethnic group and didn’t see commonalities with each other.
— NBC News, 31 May 2018 -
Johnston says these commonalities led him to believe that cancer might be viewed, for vaccine-designing purposes, as one entity.
— Keridwen Cornelius, Scientific American, 7 June 2018 -
The commonality among the young women: realize your career passion early, take academics seriously, and set high goals.
— Dennis Hohenberger, Courant Community, 19 June 2018 -
But as her review of White suggested, her racial liberalism left no space for discussions of an equality born of commonalities.
— Longreads, 25 May 2018 -
Of course, investors’ drive to find commonalities among successful entrepreneurs has also helped create the tech stereotype of the 20-something, hoodie-wearing bro.
— Kristen Bellstrom, Fortune, 21 June 2018 -
Is there some commonality to the songs that speaks to you?
— Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 25 June 2021 -
The only commonality the two seem to have is their out-of-this-world sound.
— Shelby Stewart, Chron, 19 Jan. 2021 -
Each word played earns points based on the commonality of the letters used to form it.
— cleveland, 16 Mar. 2020 -
And that will lead you to find more commonality and more spark.
— Alisa Cohn, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021 -
But there is a commonality there, and a fear on my part.
— Fox News, 19 July 2018 -
There needs to be commonality among the damages for the whole class.
— Vulture, 22 Jan. 2024 -
There may be commonalities in the swagger and the outfits, but none in the music.
— Leila Cobo, Billboard, 25 June 2023 -
The chairs of the March on Washington, though, shared a commonality: All were men.
— Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023 -
If there is a match, that commonality tells them a lot.
— Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2022 -
But there are some commonalities in the way these middle powers view the war in Ukraine.
— Daniel S. Hamilton, Foreign Affairs, 14 Nov. 2023 -
This is to be based on the Model 3, with a high degree of parts commonality between the two.
— Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 24 July 2019 -
Seven years ago, there were some commonalities among the horse deaths in New York.
— John Cherwa, latimes.com, 22 June 2019 -
There’s commonality across species in the involvement of a brain area like the striatum.
— Quanta Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024 -
And that's one of the questions that's gonna be asked about these people, was there a commonality of people on birth control pills?
— Norah O'Donnell, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2021 -
To stand up for the underdog and to rise together around the commonality of LOVE.
— Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 23 Dec. 2020 -
That commonality is [in the jam and electronic worlds] is very close.
— Katie Bain, Billboard, 27 June 2019 -
There's no way to determine the commonality of the tactics, states the CPT report.
— David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 16 May 2019 -
While all the designers are Black, that’s where the commonality ends.
— Jill Newman, Town & Country, 15 Sep. 2021 -
Nowadays, the two also share the commonality of going viral.
— Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 23 Oct. 2024
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