just plain folks
idiom
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: ordinary people
All kinds of people attended the event, including politicians, celebrities, and just plain folks.
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Supporters were mostly developers, architects, funders, clergy, progressive activists and just plain folks.
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Joe Enright, New York Daily News, 14 July 2024
And eventually the shuttle would carry just plain folks: non-astronaut scientists, politicians, schoolteachers, and journalists.
—Trudy E. Bell, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Jan. 2016
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Joe Enright, New York Daily News, 14 July 2024
And eventually the shuttle would carry just plain folks: non-astronaut scientists, politicians, schoolteachers, and journalists.
—Trudy E. Bell, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Jan. 2016
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