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common ground
noun
- a foundation of common interest or comprehension, as in a social relationship or a discussion.
common ground
noun
- an agreed basis, accepted by both or all parties, for identifying issues in an argument
Word History and Origins
Origin of common ground1
Idioms and Phrases
Shared beliefs or interests, a foundation for mutual understanding. For example, The European Union is struggling to find common ground for establishing a single currency . [1920s]Example Sentences
The President truly believes the relationships he built over decades in the Senate could help him find common ground.
Overlooked is the common ground shared by those who draw different conclusions on the finer points of available research.
The breach is telling lies when we need truth, greed when we need compassion, fighting one another when we need to find common ground, and hating when we ought to be loving.
We now know that we all dream differently but perhaps somehow we can still find common ground.
The common ground they share is that both are in the top four, for now, while others are on the outside looking in.
The LGBT movement looked for places where we could find common ground, and focused there.
It became a model, rarely emulated, of how digital tools can be used to find common ground in a contentious society.
Tellingly, Rieux finds common ground with every character except the priest.
The priests conclude that there is common ground on even the most contentious topics that pit science versus spirituality.
But even his worst opponents can find common ground with him on their shared dedication to details.
To write with authority about another man, we must have fellow-feeling and some common ground of experience with our subject.
But Hollister could never find himself on any common ground of mutual interest with this sporting Englishman.
They differ typically in movement or composition; they have a common ground in diction.
And in this common ground each influenced the other from the beginning of recorded criticism.
There seemed no way that men and prowlers could ever meet on common ground.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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