common good
noun
: the public good : the advantage of everyone
The organization works for the common good.
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Entire neighborhoods clapped every evening to express their appreciation for the personal sacrifices made by nurses and other essential workers in the name of the common good.
Nurses, however, are not angels.
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Tracy R. Vitale and Caroline Dorsen, STAT, 16 July 2024
Ultimately, achieving the common good will require a level of shrewdness and pragmatism, often missing in climate debates.
—Michael Sheldrick, New York Daily News, 5 Feb. 2024
Promoting a specific religion, as this law does, is unfair, discriminatory and adds nothing to key goals of policy, such as to protect us or promote the common good.
—Washington Post, 27 June 2024
The Moon will make a final sextile to alchemical Pluto in Aquarius, showing us how to use our abilities for the common good.
—Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 29 Mar. 2024
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Tracy R. Vitale and Caroline Dorsen, STAT, 16 July 2024
Ultimately, achieving the common good will require a level of shrewdness and pragmatism, often missing in climate debates.
—Michael Sheldrick, New York Daily News, 5 Feb. 2024
Promoting a specific religion, as this law does, is unfair, discriminatory and adds nothing to key goals of policy, such as to protect us or promote the common good.
—Washington Post, 27 June 2024
The Moon will make a final sextile to alchemical Pluto in Aquarius, showing us how to use our abilities for the common good.
—Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 29 Mar. 2024
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“Common good.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/common%20good. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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