"commonly understood sense" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to something that is widely accepted or known to be true. Example: It is commonly understood sense that eating a healthy, balanced diet is important for maintaining overall well-being.
Compensation for people handling other people's money has sometimes not been earned in the commonly understood sense of the word.
Iraq probably has no weapons of mass destruction in the commonly understood sense of that term - namely, a credible device capable of being delivered against strategic city targets.
Last night Mr Cook said he did not believe that Saddam Hussein had "weapons of mass destruction in the commonly understood sense of that term, namely a credible device cap-able of being delivered against strategic city targets".
The threats of everything from Iranian meddling to al-Qaida activity "were each explicitly identified before the invasion".When Robin Cook resigned from the cabinet before the invasion, he declared that "Iraq probably has no weapons of mass destruction in the commonly understood sense of the term".
And then there those who were not listened to, such as former UN chief weapons inspector Scott Ritter, who warned in 2002 that "since 1998 Iraq has been fundamentally disarmed"; or Robin Cook, who told a hushed House of Commons as he resigned that "Iraq probably has no weapons of mass destruction in the commonly understood sense of the term".
MPs broke with tradition to applaud the 12-minute address after he predicted: "Iraq probably has no weapons of mass destruction in the commonly understood sense of the term – namely a credible device capable of being delivered against a strategic city target".
In this way, diabetes is still most commonly understood and made sense of by reference to traditional or pre-existing ideas.
Although it's commonly understood that our senses of taste and scent are linked, even the most refined gourmets aren't always aware of how intimately bound together they are.
None of this, of course, qualifies Shostakovich as a "dissident" in the sense that the term is commonly understood in the West.
This is partly because neither of them existed in the first place, at least in the sense that they are most commonly understood.
They now admit that smoking is "addictive," but only in the sense that the term is "commonly understood" by the average layperson.
