To be average is to be commonplace and unexceptional.
The oddball accolades that used to be commonplace, for instance, have been kept to a minimum.
I was desperate for the magazine not to be commonplace, and it isn't.
That seems to be commonplace at awards ceremonies now, but it's a great shame, and rather boring.
And if that turned out to be commonplace, it would be the paradigm shift to end them all.
All of this was supposed to be commonplace by the early 2000s and certainly well before 2010.
In decades gone by, it used to be commonplace to marvel at how pop divas reinvented themselves.
The objects he paints have to be commonplace to be so immediately recognisable: this is a fundamental qualification.
What political judgment can people make without pay information that used to be commonplace when trade unions were more powerful?
The siesta used to be commonplace in Spanish-speaking countries, but the tradition was already waning as Latin America's economies developed throughout the '80s and '90s.
11 standard, or in weight, like Andiamo's seven-pound Bravo carry-on, less than half the 15 pounds that used to be commonplace.
