The phrase "a shared plight" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or hardship that is experienced collectively by a group of people.
Example: "The community came together to support each other through a shared plight during the natural disaster."
Alternatives: "a common struggle" or "a mutual hardship."
The Hamas MPs, hitherto minor figures, have become celebrities.They are popular partly because they are seen as symbols of a shared plight.
Shrinking Violets is designed to entertain, and perhaps to comfort sufferers through recognition of a shared plight, but not to be a programme for "personal growth".
To restore our social bonds, each one of us must overcome our isolating feelings of embarrassment and humiliation and understand that this is a shared plight.
It is the ability to truly feel empathy for someone, not out of a sense of condescension, but out of a realization of our shared plight.
The way I figure it, old people's homes in some distant floating space future in which we will all compost down into death are going to be amazing: PlayStations, slut-dropping, a sort of inherent ironic appreciation of our shared plight that will have us laughing our bloody heads off as we Vine each other dying.
Wright's vision of our shared plight is stark and depressive — it's nearly possible to boil it down, typographically, to NOTHINGlifeNOTHING.
The speeches are meant to be taken as inward monologues, dream-soliloquies, while the uniform shape of utterance suggests a commonality, a shared and inescapable plight.
The plight of Christians in Syria has resonated among religious minorities across the Middle East, many of whom see themselves as facing a shared destiny.
Pan-roasted chicken would have rated higher if its golden crispy exterior had not been immersed in a deep pool of its own juice, a plight shared by a serving of grilled pork loin.
Years ago, I shared my plight with a therapist I was seeing.
Her voice trembled as she shared the plight of a close family friend whose life had been uprooted by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
