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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a common reply is" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when introducing a frequently given response to a question or statement.
Example: "When asked about the best way to learn a new language, a common reply is to practice speaking with native speakers."
Alternatives: "a typical response is" or "a frequent answer is".
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A common reply is that the egoist's justification is egoistic but not her motivation, a reply that itself invites the charge of moral "schizophrenia".
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According to Ying Tao, a Chinese-born Harvard MBA student who has a job lined up at a hedge fund in London: "When I started looking for a job, a common reply was 'We don't have anything in London but how about Hong Kong?' They seemed desperate for qualified people out there".Some wonder if the region's job market is ripe for a correction.
The reasons were many, but a common reply was the need for reality-based information.
What Searle 1980 calls "perhaps the most common reply" is the Systems Reply.
The most common reply is that immortality need not get boring (Fischer 1994; Wisnewski 2005; Bortolotti and Nagasawa 2009; Chappell 2009; Quigley and Harris 2009, 75 78).
And then we discount them, as Rush Limbaugh suggested when he famously asked of a Hilary presidency, "Will this country want to actually watch a woman get older before their eyes?" When I suggest we're not doing much better in this country, the most common reply is that here we don't stone women.
The common reply was: "Don't care.
Sophie Grig of Survival International told me that, when she asked people why they wanted to see the Jarawa, the most common reply was, "Because they're not civilised".
(The most common reply was, "You're the first person I've ever met from there!") Now that I've moved back to the state to Laramie, a college town—I tell people I'm from Rock Springs, and they sort of inch back and widen their eyes, like they're reassessing me or sensing for signs of danger.
I remember telling Festus Onigbende, the Nigeria manager at the 2002 World Cup, that this was a common reply to my question.
On the Gumball, a common reply to the sentence, "Morning sir, breakfast is this way," would be: "You get any sleep last night?
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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