The gooey substance produced by mixing cornstarch with a little water is a commonplace example of such a material.
Situations like that are of a sort that concierges from Nashville to New York or Nice see so often they've become commonplace: A guest is in a panic and can't fathom a solution to their problem, whether it's a soiled suit, a canceled reservation or a missing piece of luggage.
It is a commonplace that generous welfare is a brake on European economic growth, leading to higher taxes and fewer jobs.
Swinging attention to the ATIV Tab shows what's likely to be a commonplace list of features for a Windows RT slate.
The Mach3 is covered by 35 patents, astonishing for something as commonplace as a razor.
It is also commonplace for a company to generate cash in advance of revenue.
No longer, as that particular setup grows more commonplace as a spec, trickling down into the smartphone and tablet markets.
After mobile calls became more commonplace in a few developed countries, manufacturers added keyboards and larger screens, clearing the way for the SMS and mobile e-mail revolutions.
Tethered products will become commonplace within a few years.
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This blog (and it will be a blog, a commonplace book of what interests me rather than a series of essays or pronouncements) will be, as my personal blog has been for years, infused with my (mis) understandings of the subject.
The numbers also put a few commonplace free market assumptions in a critical perspective.
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It is a commonplace of Jewish-Christian dialogue that both have a common root in the Hebrew Scriptures which Christians call the Old Testament.
So maybe one day soon, having a household robot bring you dinner as you're watching a 3D film on your connected-TV will become as commonplace as having a mobile phone.
It is a commonplace that the Christian Heaven, as usually portrayed, would attract nobody.
It is a commonplace to say that Russia cannot revert to its Communist past.
London-based Designers Avcen believe it could be a commonplace sight over our cities within five or six years.
Now survival is commonplace, and a large part of the credit goes to the irreplaceable component of medicine known as intensive care.
It has become something of a commonplace to say that Russia will never go back to what it was to orthodox Soviet-style communism.
It is a commonplace, but one that most of us ignore: If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
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Despite such widely variant reactions, it is a commonplace that the Pyongyang's nuclear program is aimed squarely at the United States and its allies.
It is commonplace now for a work of art to be worth tens of millions of dollars, and that makes them a target for art thieves.
Powerful interests -- Microsoft, credit card concerns, banks -- are betting billions that zapping around e-cash will be as commonplace as sticking a card in an ATM.
It is becoming a commonplace assumption that the November presidential election will turn on the public's perception of how things are going in the war on terror.
But labor activists have consistently alleged that factory owners in their greed for more business and profits have given short shrift to the safety of their workers making fires a commonplace occurence.
It is a commonplace that, among these emerging economies, the most successful are the ones that have educated most of their workers up to, and in many cases well beyond, levels typically achieved in the West.
The Christmas 1914 fraternisation, in which the Battalion was among the first to participate, had had the same professional simplicity: no emotional hiatus, this, but a commonplace of military tradition an exchange of courtesies between officers of opposing armies.
As prices fall, what starts off as a fancy new feature quickly becomes commonplace try buying a phone without a camera, or a car without electric windows prompting companies to add new features in an effort to outdo their rivals.
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