Sentence examples for a common meaning from inspiring English sources

"Individual," several justices said, has a common meaning, and it does not include corporations and other organizations.

The next major stage in the evolution of Sumerian writing was the adoption of the phonographic principle, the use of a sign to represent a common sound rather than a common meaning.

Sometimes these sounds are words, such as the name of god, divine myth, a prayer, or hymn; but sometimes the most sacred sounds are those that do not have a common meaning, for example, the Hindu om, the Buddhist oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ, or the Jewish and Christian "Hallelujah".

A common (meaning an ordinary, undistinguished label) went for about a dollar.

One explanation is that "substantial" and "essential" share a common meaning which is why the higher proficiency students were deceived.

Academic departments are complex social systems, and even widespread terms like "active learning" lack a common meaning across contexts.

"Under any common meaning of the term, CIA detainees were tortured".

"Under any common meaning of the term, CIA detainees were tortured," she added.

2) Loaded To most Americans, this has a very common meaning, right?

In Russia the windshield wiper on your car isn't called a mechanical name — it's a dvornik, a word whose more common meaning is "custodian".

Phenomenology is the appropriate method for developing a deep understanding of the common meaning of a phenomenon among multiple individuals.