Yet the 96-year-old mag, which keeps a glossary of its "slanguage" on its Web site (www.variety.com), claims to have coined such commonplace terms as sex appeal, corny and sitcom.
"In commonplace terms, it rests on that generosity of spirit which assumes the best, not the worst, of the stranger".
Employer injury and illness records are unlikely to include the detail contained in medical documents, and can be expected to describe the injuries using commonplace terms rather than medical terminology.
After Mr. Bush transformed signing statements from an obscure tool into a commonplace term, Mr. Obama's willingness to use them has disappointed some who had hoped he would roll back the practice, not entrench it.
And in recent years, the label néo-vigneron has been such a commonplace term in French real estate marketing that the definition has become hazy, even being used to describe professional operations that be may new to France but certainly are not new to winemaking, like the well-known Napa Valley company Clos de Val, which has bought in the Languedoc region.
During his tenure with the Red Sox and especially throughout the New England area, the phrase "Yoouuuk!" became a commonplace term; being seen on T-shirts, bumper stickers, and advertising.
Tetrahydrogestrinone, a steroid known as THG, has become almost as commonplace a term as R.B.I. since Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants and Jason Giambi of the Yankees were called to testify in the case against Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, or Balco.
Living alone for the first time is a commonplace experience in terms of the realisation, and acceptance, of unopposed selfish- ness.
Throughout the 1920s, public discussion of contraception became more commonplace, and the term "birth control" became firmly established in the nation's vernacular.
Over email, So Drove shared that the commonplace self-help term "Say Yes" was actually the missing piece that helped cement the song's bilateral sound.
Following the successful opening of the CRB in 1923, public discussion of contraception became more commonplace, and the term "birth control" became firmly established in the nation's vernacular.
