But even as Kitty Hawk gave way to Tailhook, and aviation became commonplace — please return your seat-back trays to their upright and locked positions — a certain novelty has endured.
Rich states act from commonplace selfishness: Norway returns refugees to Greece while Sweden sends Roma to Kosovo.
Annual stock market returns of 8 percent were, until recently, commonplace.
In an injury-riddled sport in which comebacks have become commonplace, Nadal's return hardly belongs in that category.
Outbreaks of violent conflict in and around Kaduna State have become commonplace since the return to democratic rule in Nigeria.
It was easy to understand why many investors would have invested so much in technology, as it was easy money, and high double-digit and even triple-digit returns were commonplace.
When a musician dies there's a romantic notion that their greatest work must surely have been ahead of them, but in truth diminishing returns are more commonplace.
Raising funds based on unrealized returns was fairly commonplace in 2016.
Major acts of violence have not proliferated during the political deadlock, as many have feared, but smaller, focused attacks have been commonplace, stirring fears of a return to high levels of bloodshed.
We had on our best clothes, and we talked pretty, and were very happy — all except two young fellows, students, just returned from Germany, commonplace young men, who seemed restless and uncomfortable, as if they found the proceedings slow.
