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common denominator

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  • Drugs seem to be the common denominator in these crimes.
  • But that’s not the only common denominator among these films and books.
    — Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 5 May 2020
  • All of these names and images have a common denominator.
    — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 23 June 2020
  • The first lesson for that manager, then, is that the common denominator is pretty low and there’s a lot to learn.
    — Cate Huston, Quartz at Work, 9 Apr. 2020
  • Those extremes have a common denominator — they’re all amplified by climate change.
    — Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 14 June 2024
  • The common denominator for these emergence events was temperature, the researchers say.
    — Sara Goudarzi, Scientific American, 29 Apr. 2020
  • The common denominator between the two diseases, Fattahi said, was high testosterone levels.
    — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 8 July 2020
  • There are all kinds of Italian spritzes—the common denominators are Prosecco and sparkling water—but this version is timeless.
    — Alex Erdekian, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Accountability was a common denominator — our goal-setters leaned on family members, kept journals and shared their progress with us.
    — Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 18 June 2024
  • That feeling has become familiar, linked to a particular pattern of violence in which the common denominator is the color of our skin.
    — George The Poet, Time, 5 June 2020
  • But there is an undeniable common denominator among all these universities: the health and safety of the young student-athletes who are in a school’s care in the midst of a pandemic.
    — Christine Brennan, USA TODAY, 10 July 2020
  • The common denominator in all of the fires was the wind, LaRue said.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 5 Sep. 2022
  • That’s the common denominator for the men and the women on the app.
    — Essence, 7 May 2024
  • The common denominator is the total lack of a password in the process.
    — Davey Winder, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2021
  • And, of course, the common denominator: the 34-and-still-slugging Perez.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 18 May 2024
  • The more compelling common denominator of the Dolphins’ win streak is the rise of Phillips.
    — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Is there some common denominator to the failures of the last decade?
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 2 July 2021
  • And the common denominator of all these frills-on-steroids?
    — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 18 July 2023
  • Because at the end of the day the common denominator is winning.
    — Jamal Collier, chicagotribune.com, 13 Aug. 2021
  • All this has been building, and the common denominator is the abuse of power.
    — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 3 Mar. 2021
  • The only common denominator is that these movies have a strong point of view.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 7 May 2024
  • The common denominator: strong opinions and an undying love of the art form.
    — Rs Editors, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Julie Heacock White, a mural artist and the only one who still lives in La Mesa, points to love as a common denominator.
    — Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2022
  • The common denominator for all of us who work here in real estate is the work ethic.
    — Alyssa Shelasky, Curbed, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Florio says there is a common denominator in the spate of crimes against rappers.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2022
  • The common denominator among the sushi is fish that shines no matter its treatment.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The vast majority of the pages have one common denominator: the Ofori case.
    — Paul Farhi, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
  • His newest book is an expansive study of the cell—the common denominator of all life—and its dizzying range of types and functions.
    — Hamilton Cain, The Atlantic, 28 Nov. 2022
  • All of this drama between the two leads us back to one common denominator: gain of function.
    — Chris Sims, The Courier-Journal, 23 July 2021
  • That’s the theme, and the common denominator, for this third and final installment of our end-of-year series about the top stories in this column for 2021.
    — Cathy Huyghe, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021

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