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commonsense

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commonsense (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of common sense.
    • 2021, Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle, Fleet, pages 294–295:
      A voice kept saying, Are you sure you want to do that? His commonsense voice that had saved his hide many times.

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commonsense (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of common sense.
    • 2009, Terence Barnett Magness, The Brood of Time, page 378:
      With his usual dose of commonsense he recognized that nothing could really change the status quo, and all that a knee-crooking knave might do in protest was to sneak a line or two into his verse simply to let off steam []