common cause

A joint interest, as in “The common cause against the enemies of piety” (from John Dryden's poem, Religio laici, or a Layman's Faith, 1682). This term originated as to make common cause (with), meaning “to unite one's interest with another's.” In the mid-1900s the name Common Cause was adopted by a liberal lobbying group.

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Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cause of cancer in women worldwide.

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They were there to make common cause, to launch a movement, to commiserate.

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“A common cause of exposure that can lead to methemoglobinemia is dental procedures because one of the medicines that they’ll give for patients that have dental pain is benzocaine,” Wilkerson said.

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I think there is common cause again.

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From the radical left to the center, people made common cause against fascism.

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