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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
commonplace .
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Examples
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He has for many years been engaged in collecting extracts from newspapers, containing the leading facts and public documents of the day; but he never commonplaced from books.
Oration on the Life and Character of Henry Winter Davis John A. J. Creswell
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I read all the commonplaced names of ambitious travellers scrawled on the panes of glass; the eternal families of the Smiths, and the
Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists Washington Irving 1821
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He had been a great reader, and had commonplaced everything he read.
Letters 1760
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