popular

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populaari-

kansan, yleinen Common among the general public; generally accepted. (defdate)
2007, Joe Queenan, The Guardian, 23 Aug 2007:

Contrary to popular misconception, MacArthur Park is not the worst song ever written.

At the coming of Calvin thither, the form of their civil regiment was popular, as it continueth at this day: neither king, nor duke, nor nobleman of any authority or power over them, but officers chosen by the people out of themselves, to order all things with public consent.

Luther in popular memory had become a saint, his picture capable of saving houses from burning down, if it was fixed to the parlour wall.

Jonathan Freedland brilliantly articulates the size and nature of the challenge and we must take his lead in setting out a radical agenda for a new republic based on the principle of popular sovereignty.

Popular and shallow-headed mindes, cannot perceive the grace or comelinesse, nor judge of a smooth and quaint discourse.

As a work of popular science it is exemplary: the focus may be the numbers, but most of the mathematical legwork is confined to the appendices and the accompanying commentary is amusing and witty, as well as informed.

They might have split 24 years ago, but the Smiths remain as popular as ever, and not just among those who remember them first time around.

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