How to Use common knowledge in a Sentence

common knowledge

noun

• There is a common knowledge and taste that’s been in place for years.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 20 Sep. 2023
• All of this is more or less common knowledge for anyone with a bond.
  — Andrew Cunningham & Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 8 Sep. 2023
• Our goal is not simply to make more common knowledge.
  — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2025
• As is common knowledge, Davis spent a good chunk of the year injured.
  — Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2023
• Sending save-the-dates six months in advance is common knowledge.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 27 Jan. 2022
• This is not a secret, this is common knowledge and people are OK with it.
  — ABC News, 8 Dec. 2023
• By winter, their affair was common knowledge.
  — Anika Burgess, New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2026
• The concept of the no-show summer job was common knowledge at least as far back as the 1950s.
  — Bob Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2023
• But what’s common knowledge to you may actually be genius to someone else.
  — Jessica Chen, Contributor, CNBC, 9 Oct. 2024
• This plan would not be common knowledge to the locals for some weeks, for reasons unclear to Old Jim.
  — Jeff Vandermeer, WIRED, 22 Oct. 2024
• Norton’s family says the deaths on his property were common knowledge and gave voters pause.
  — Kyle Hopkins, ProPublica, 11 Nov. 2023
• While the Alonso news seems like common knowledge at this point, the Scherzer update may be a bit of a surprise.
  — John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
• Life is full of coördination problems that are addressed through common knowledge, Pinker writes.
  — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2025
• Human beings take decades to learn enough to add meaningfully to the compendium of common knowledge.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Aug. 2015
• And yet, in other circumstances, the evasion of common knowledge can be subtle, even enjoyable.
  — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2025
• The story of the emperor with no clothes shows how common knowledge empowers collective action.
  — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2025
• Many of our technologies are built on the not-unreasonable assumption that openness is good, and that more common knowledge is better.
  — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2025
• The fact that the seafloor was littered with munitions has been common knowledge since 1945, but no one knew exactly how much there was or where.
  — Paul Hockenos, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Sep. 2024
• But for all that’s common knowledge about Wright, there are a number of tantalizing details lying just below the surface.
  — Carrie Hojnicki, Architectural Digest, 20 Feb. 2026
• But for all that’s common knowledge about Wright, there are a number of tantalizing details lying just below the surface.
  — Carrie Hojnicki, Architectural Digest, 21 May 2025
• Within each subject, there will be some common knowledge, but mostly, each student wants to learn based upon their own interests, beliefs, and plans for the future.
  — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
• Uncertainty about the motives and opinions of others leads to confusion; common knowledge leads to action.
  — Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2025
• It’s been somewhat common knowledge that LeBron was hoping to play for whatever team were to draft his son, so the two could play together.
  — Trisha Garcia-Easto, Sacramento Bee, 2 May 2024
• Contrary to common knowledge, smallholder farmers with less than five hectares produce 60% of the global coffee supply.
  — Henry Duckworth, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
• The obvious coordination game resolved by common knowledge of a loss is Hawk–Dove.
  — Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025
• The unique human capacity to weep may have evolved to strengthen social bonds and generate common knowledge regarding our inner states.
  — Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025
• But then, as the evidence of atrocities became common knowledge, Nusseibeh said, that elation curdled.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
• As usual, commenters had plenty of questions and objections, but most remarks involved disbelief that detail hasn’t been made common knowledge.
  — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Sep. 2024
• Their respective history with arm injuries was common knowledge around the entire MLB.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2024
• But this airline customer service misdirection is common knowledge in the travel industry and among people who know Google.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024