"common thought" is an acceptable phrase in written English, and it is often used to refer to the generally accepted ideas or notions on a particular topic.
For example, "It is a common thought in the medical field that exercise is essential for overall health."
They had no common language, but one common thought.
Daniel Callahan expresses a common thought: Cut Medicare benefits so our children will have Medicare benefits.
A common thought is that a rear-wheel steered bicycle cannot be laterally self-stable, and therefore hard to control.
A common thought about a person's coldness becomes gloriously fantastic, ending with the comic release of understatement.
"And then I said, 'I'm buying it.' " It's a common thought just before convertible deals are signed.
So how did it become common thought in the 20th century that people in the 15th century believed the Earth was flat?
It is time to throw away the former and pull out the latter in preparation for our impassioned feast of common thought and action.
But at our instigation and with our assent, it also herds us into tribes of common thought and shared temperament, amplifying the timeless human tropism toward cliques.
In contrast with common thought, we generated highly hydrophobic anticancer prodrug self-assembled nanoparticles without the aid of surface active substances, based on the conjugation of docetaxel to d-α-tocopherol succinate.
A common thought in the original and recent interviews is that the 1960s rocket team was a unique assembly of people with leadership and modes of operation that has not been reproduced since.
"They went against the grain of common thought that it would be wasteful for women to go to school," says Maria Protti '79, longtime board member and former programs, events and prizes chair for the Prytanean Women's Honor Society.
