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commonplace: notes: {n}

synonyms: platitude, bromide, truism, banality, ~shibboleth ???

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Definition:

A platitude or cliché.

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"You’re incorrigible," said Stremov, not looking at her, and he spoke again to Anna. As he rarely met Anna, he could say nothing but commonplaces to her, but he said those commonplaces as to when she was returning to Petersburg,

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina

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I couldn’t muster up a single commonplace out of the thousand in my head.

F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby (1925)