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IN COMMON
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of joint or shared interest
Example:
when an audience is responding to a play they are identifying what they have in common with the human beings on stage
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Sense 2
Meaning:
In joint use or possession
Example:
property held in common
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Context examples:
A person’s brother or sister who has one parent in common.
(Half-sibling, NCI Dictionary)
Two comets that will safely fly past Earth later this month may have more in common than their intriguingly similar orbits.
(A 'Tail' of Two Comets, NASA)
Families have many factors in common, including their genes, environment, and lifestyle.
(Family History, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
A person's brother or sister who has one parent in common.
(Half Sibling, NCI Dictionary)
Georgiana and she had nothing in common: they never had had.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Unlike other materialists I had met and with whom I had something in common to start on, I had nothing in common with him.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Perhaps you did not know—you were not aware of their leading from the offices in common use?
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
You have moral and literary tastes in common.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I avoided the Middletons as much as possible, as well as everybody else who was likely to prove an acquaintance in common.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Lord John Roxton has some points in common with Professor Summerlee, and others in which they are the very antithesis to each other.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
