| Of course, these commonalities were fragmented with cleavages along the now-familiar lines of class, gender, and nationality. |
| Are we all part of a shrinking world where we can count on our commonalities to keep the whole ball of wax in one piece? |
| We're a melting pot of different cultural traditions, without the commonalities to bind us all together. |
| Here too differences loom at least as large as commonalities across the linguistic fault lines. |
| Other commonalities in law, language and economics bind England to America. |
| Plato's elements can be interconverted because of the geometric commonalities of their atoms. |
