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Discover LudwigThe phrase 'common tool' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is widely used, accessible, and familiar. For example, "The internet is a common tool for job seekers."
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"It's becoming very much a common tool," said Warren Ashton, group marketing manager at Microsoft.
His partner used a sampler, a common tool of the new electronic improviser.
Genome editing has become a common tool in laboratories around the world.
Tusk rejected the arguments often made by Brexit campaigners by saying the EU was a common tool, not a superstate.
Stones are another relatively common tool used by chimps to crack open nuts and cut open large fruit.
Automated software that tries to crack user accounts by entering thousands of passwords is a common tool.
Recess appointments are a common tool for presidents frustrated by the confirmation process.
The most common tool (and the simplest method) is the smoke gun.
If anything, our world looks increasingly more hostile and dangerous, and the administration of justified or imagined fear has become a major and common tool of governments.
In the past few years, 3-D printers have become an increasingly common tool in a range of industries, from medicine to robotics, firearms manufacture to aerospace engineering.
It is a different story, however, in the luxury market in which leasing has always been a common tool to attract buyers to higher-priced cars and trucks.
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