This is a neighborhood where, until recently, it was commonplace for bankers to boast into their cellphones about their bonuses.
A recently published Korean commonplace book defines it as "resentment, sorrow, sense of loss and hardship, stifled passion and love, or the frustration of the downtrodden".
Computers have recently emerged as commonplace on the scene in a record number of university art departments.
I realize that this iconography has become commonplace — I recently saw one that said "Defend White Plains" — but they captured a pride, an anxiety, and a defensiveness that was expressed in many others words and slogans: "It Was the Flood, Not the Storm"; "Make Levees, Not War"; "New Orleans: Proud to Call It Home"; and "Hold the Corps Accountable".
In a conversation recently, when I was making the commonplace complaints about religions, a friend remarked that without religions people might go mad from life's mysteries.
As recently as the 90s, location transfers were commonplace and companies were quite generous with moving allowances.
In fact until recently geologists tended to regard shale as commonplace, even dull - a view that has obviously changed.
And recently, the term 'blood diamonds' has become commonplace, representing the fact that many armed conflicts in Africa have been funded by the sale of diamonds.
Spinning out business units is commonplace among Chinese tech companies, Baidu itself recently did so with its financial services business.
7 8 While computerised prescribing has been commonplace in UK primary care for some time, until recently there has been no system for transferring prescriptions electronically to community pharmacies, and prescriptions were, instead, printed out and taken by hand.
