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The phrase "a common parlance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a language or terminology that is widely understood and used by a particular group or in a specific context.
Example: "In the tech industry, terms like 'cloud computing' and 'big data' have become a common parlance among professionals."
Alternatives: "a widely used language" or "a shared vocabulary".
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The language of cultural theory may appear arcane and indecipherable to some but to those in interdisciplinary studies it offers a common parlance.
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In February of this year the war against the pushcart vendors reached its height, and today the enemy drives a shared taxi, a person who in common parlance is called a "boatman".
Although "tree" is a term of common parlance, there is no universally recognised precise definition of what a tree is, either botanically or in common language.
He has always been in favour of harm reduction, he says, a phrase in common parlance in drug addiction.
When she'd moved to Tehran, there was not yet a term in common parlance for the space she occupied, but she came to understand it as "civil society".
You denied our search word promotion based on trademark rights, even though Google has become a matter of common parlance like "Kleenex" or "Xerox".
In common parlance, a myth is a story about gods or otherworldly beings.
Am I free to scream the equivalent of fire in a crowded theater or in common parlance creating a witch hunting atmosphere which exploits fear of political or sexual aggression.
Each domain concludes with a two-week examination called a "Boss Level"—a common phrase in video-game parlance.Freeing the helotsIn one of the units of Being, Space and Place, for example, pupils take on the role of an ancient Spartan who has to assess Athenian strengths and recommend a course of action.
"The 'sawbuck' theory has the advantage of a clearer line of plausible transmission, but even with that theory, there are relatively few examples until late in this same period (as a casual slang term, it likely had a long gestation in common parlance before it began to see the light of print)," Potter explained.
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