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common ground
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  • The only common ground they have, as far as I know, is failure.†   (source)
  • But Paul nevertheless finds some common ground in this culture.†   (source)
  • Knowing my old friends and I had lost all common ground.†   (source)
  • It was intriguing that the two of you do such varied jobs and still manage to share common ground.†   (source)
  • But almost instantly they reach a common ground.†   (source)
  • This was our common ground, the secret we shared but never spoke aloud.†   (source)
  • No doubt because he wanted them to find common ground.†   (source)
  • But somewhere, we had found a point of common ground between us that enabled us both to develop and nurture a friendship through five decades.†   (source)
  • I found that I could talk to just about anyone, whether it was Bruce Jenner or a mom with a mustache, and find some common ground with them quickly—I wanted to be less poor, lonely, and hairy too.†   (source)
  • Ryan was watching something he had never seen before, men from two different places and two very different cultures trying to find common ground.†   (source)
  • He'd learned the hard way that if somebody was going to have your back in a fight, it was better if you found some common ground and trusted each other.†   (source)
  • Pro-choice and pro-life camps, despite their differences, should be able to find common ground and work together on many points, in particular on an agenda to reduce the number of abortions.†   (source)
  • In those early days, Pollard and Woolf found common ground in their quick minds, cerebral riding styles, and keen senses of humor.†   (source)
  • I wasn't sure what to expect in the modern ballet class, but our Chinese folk dance classes and tai chi movements made it easy for us to find some common ground.†   (source)
  • His mind raced through subjects where they might find common ground.†   (source)
  • After a moment, Vida attempts to wrestle Cedric's point about shared values and common ground back to the preordained narrative.†   (source)
  • Both realized that two black men, living sixty minutes apart and with some measure of power in a white world, should find common ground.†   (source)
  • Levy detects one linguistic role for like, similar to you know, "to build conversational solidarity and negotiate common ground."†   (source)
  • A healthy democracy needs ways to bypass gatekeepers so we can communicate with one another directly, and perhaps even find common ground.†   (source)
  • But in one of God's unforeseen paths, this belatedly broken impasse can point us all to a new common ground, for its very closeness can serve to remind us that we are one people with a shared history and a shared destiny.†   (source)
  • Lucy knows her politics well, and she argues right back, until at some point in their walk along the picturesque harbor, with its sailboats and magnificent seaside homes, it becomes clear that they will never reach a common ground.†   (source)
  • And now they stood on common ground with no weapons drawn, compelled to this spot by a force even greater than their hatred for each other.†   (source)
  • We have a lot of common ground, outside the job.†   (source)
  • Whatever your background is, I feel that in a spiritual way we could meet on common ground.†   (source)
  • The week was a poignant ceremony of opposing forces trying to find common ground for the good of the community's youth.†   (source)
  • Valuable real estate for a while, and now bush again, common ground, according to African practice.†   (source)
  • …was said to induce violations of the Army Appropriations Act; the tenth recited that Johnson had delivered "intemperate, inflammatory and scandalous harangues …. as well against Congress as the laws of the United States"; and the eleventh was a deliberately obscure conglomeration of all the charges in the preceding articles, which had been designed by Thaddeus Stevens to furnish a common ground for those who favored conviction but Wereunwilling to identify themselves on basic issues.†   (source)
  • My father liked them because he was on his home turf, with sports as a common ground.†   (source)
  • Our interactions, instead, were mostly limited to academic discussions, our solid common ground.†   (source)
  • I can't imagine the Shostakovich ever sucking, but I won't deny us this common ground.†   (source)
  • He nodded at this; obviously we now had common ground.†   (source)
  • In such times, I believe it falls to us Wobblies to try and hold the shrinking common ground.†   (source)
  • Farmers, leftists, anarchists, nationalists, environmentalists, consumer advocates, educators, health officials, labor unions, and defenders of animal rights have found common ground in a campaign against the perceived Americanization of the world.†   (source)
  • Worlds may have been colliding, but as the conversation began to roll around to wedding plans and preparations, it was clear there was a common ground.†   (source)
  • She was from the Dominican Republic but had lived in Massachusetts for years—not in neighborhoods I knew well, but we shared some common ground.†   (source)
  • Plus, and best of all, their shared conviction that this had to be the Best Wedding Ever finally gave Caroline and my mother a solid common ground, and they'd gotten along pretty well ever since.†   (source)
  • And we both knew that the common ground we'd found at her family's house—where we hung out all the time—made it like a haven for us.†   (source)
  • Kim Sherman, an earthy, artistic girl from Tennessee, searching for the common ground everyone enjoyed an hour ago at the dinner table, asks sheepishly, "What about 'Brown student,' isn't that an identity?†   (source)
  • He was sure, he added, that there was some common ground on which they could meet.†   (source)
  • We would stand on common ground.†   (source)
  • There seemed no common ground on which they could talk to one another.†   (source)
  • …I would feel myself not too remotely banished from her company; and I would suddenly force my father (by pretending, for instance, to believe that my grandfather's business had been in our family before his day, or that the hedge with the pink hawthorn which my aunt Leonie wished to visit was on common ground) to correct my statements, to say, as though in opposition to me and of his own accord: "No, no, the business belonged to Swann's father, that hedge is part of Swann's park."†   (source)
  • He seated himself at table, without removing his cap; and did it without the least embarrassment; for to eat with one's cap on was the one solitary royal custom upon which the kings and the Cantys met upon common ground, neither party having any advantage over the other in the matter of old familiarity with it.†   (source)
  • Isabel's words, if they had been meant to shock him, failed of the mark and only made him smile with the sense that here was common ground.†   (source)
  • It appeared to her that, different as they were in appearance and general style, Isabel and she had somewhere a patch of common ground that they would set their feet upon at last.†   (source)
  • If you meet a sectary or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines, but meet on what common ground remains,—if only that the sun shines and the rain rains for both,—the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it, the boundary mountains on which the eye had fastened have melted into air.†   (source)
  • Both, it is true, were characters proper to New England life, and possessing a common ground, therefore, in their more external developments; but as unlike, in their respective interiors, as if their native climes had been at world-wide distance.†   (source)
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