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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
commonize .
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Examples
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"commonized" processes for the purposes of benchmarking and accelerating improvements?
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"commonized" processes for the purposes of benchmarking and accelerating improvements?
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The tone in which he _commonized_ the name to a satiric general term, is not to be written down, and needed not to be interpreted.
Real Folks 1865
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The C/D platform will be the basis of the Fusion and Mondeo replacements, which will also be commonized.
Autoblog Sam Abuelsamid 2010
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The C is of course the Focus, and we are expecting the replacements for the Escape and the current European market Kuga to be commonized and offered as hybrids.
Autoblog Sam Abuelsamid 2010
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After the resurrection and elaboration of Lloyd's theory of the commons several papers were published arguing that even with shortages a commonized resource need not necessarily come to a bad end.
Bill Totten's Weblog 2008
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In the medical case the waste is due less to the abuse of the commonized system by hypochondriacs than it is to its exploitation by liability lawyers whose forensic creativity pushes physicians into the practice of 'defensive medicine', that is, the employment of expensive medical procedures that defend doctors against lawyers, producing a waste of resources that defrauds the general public.
Bill Totten's Weblog 2008
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Short-run self-interest drives a herdsman in a common to add animals to his herd beyond the carrying capacity of the domain because the profit from so doing accrues to him alone, while the attendant costs caused by overpopulation are commonized over the entire community of herdsmen.
Bill Totten's Weblog 2008
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"I believe there is always a charm in a novel word that has not been commonized by the crowd.
Mae Madden Mary Murdoch Mason
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On urban reinvention: "Suppose you found some dead James Howard Kunstler strip-mall burg, bought it for a dollar, and turned it into" OpenSource-opolis "where every possible object and service was creatively commonized.
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