| While plants and animals have distinctly different nutritional requirements, there are some commonalities. |
| We should be on the watch, though, for commonalities which advance the project of thinking multiple traditions. |
| We're a melting pot of different cultural traditions, without the commonalities to bind us all together. |
| Plato's elements can be interconverted because of the geometric commonalities of their atoms. |
| Of course, these commonalities were fragmented with cleavages along the now-familiar lines of class, gender, and nationality. |
| Other commonalities in law, language and economics bind England to America. |
