In the Corpus of Contemporary American English, a database of more than 450 million words from speeches, media, fiction, and academic texts, among the most common words (excluding conjunctions and prepositions among others) co-occurring with "middle class" we find "emerging," "burgeoning," "burdened," and "squeezed".
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer, excluding nonmelanoma skin cancer, among men in the USA and other industrialized societies.
Prostate cancer continues to be the most common malignancy, excluding skin cancer, and the second leading cause of cancer-related death in men in Western countries.
Participants explained that transporting a patient on a bicycle is the most common means (excluding women in labour) of transporting people to the CHPS compound and beyond.
Example word clouds for the 50 most common words (excluding commonly used English words and drug names) in all normalised tweets for Avonex, Rebif and Tysabri are shown in Figure 5, Figure 6 and Figure 7.
We are aware that the manual procedure may be prone to errors, however, we have reviewed the suffixes appearing in the general suffixes list, and so, the most common ones were excluded.
Within this pool of potential volunteers, the most common reason for excluding an individual from the study was meeting psychiatric disorder (ADHD, Mania) or medication use.
Histories of psychiatric illness (including suicide and self-harm) and short sentences preventing follow-up were the most common reasons for excluding potential participants.
Insertion of tympanostomy tubes is the most common surgical procedure excluding circumcision for U.S. children ≤15 years of age [ 8, 9].
Because social risk factors may differentially affect mortality of each site-specific cancer, we also examined cumulative social risk in relation to mortality from the four most common cancer sites (excluding non-melanoma skin cancers) of breast, prostate, colon/rectum, and lung including trachea and bronchus [ 19].
