- commonWorking from home has become increasingly common.
- rifeViolence was rife throughout the city.
- commonplaceEarthquakes are a commonplace occurrence in California.
- be two/ten a pennyUK Good designers are two a penny, but great designers are worth their weight in gold.
- be a dime a dozenUS Those cheap little metal cars are a dime a dozen. You can get them anywhere.
Meaning of rife in English
rife | American Dictionary
Graft and corruption were rife in city government.
Examples of rife
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Corruption has not only been rife but is openly practised by all politicians of all parties.
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High wartime profits were particularly rife among food suppliers, raising suspicions of speculation.
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Although this is an extreme example, bad performance is rife in studies of adult concept learning.
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Cognitive science is rife with ideas that offend our intuitions.
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Accordingly, he speculates that pivotlessness should be rife among morphologically ergative languages.
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The motif of the wall is rife with mystical associations that will be discussed below.
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The story that resides in this evidence is rife with compelling affirmations of his welldeserved acclaim.
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Moreover, natural language is rife with constructions that depend crucially on differences between assumed speaker and hearer knowledge.
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Considering where the camp was situated, it was no surprise that disease was rife, particularly malaria and dysentery.
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704 exposed to criticism communicated between their parents, resulting in a family emotional climate rife with negativity across relationships.
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Even where lordly interference was minimal and rents and fines were low, moreover, ' engrossment and social polarisation were rife ' (p. 309).
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Although these findings enjoy considerable theoretical and intuitive appeal, research on individual differences in rates of political participation is hardly rife with attention to extroversion.
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The disadvantage of implicit semantics is that they are rife with ambiguity.
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In effect, this extends the range of their professional gaze of social control into the private realm, rife with crime and corruption.
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In the absence of firm guidance from game theory, speculation has been rife in the theoretical literature on the commons; some, empirically dubious.
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yaygın, çok rastlanan, salgın…
qui sévit…
wijdverbreid…
hojný, běžný…
udbredt…
meluas…
แพร่กระจาย…
lan tràn…
rozpowszechniony, nagminny…
utbredd, förhärskande…
tersebar…
grassieren…
utbredt…
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