common touch
noun
: the gift of appealing to or arousing the sympathetic interest of the common people
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The crisis forced the royals to recognize that Diana’s common touch had connected with people in ways that had not yet occurred to the House of Windsor. —
ABC News, 21 Feb. 2026 Their pretentious vocabulary is what’s keeping progressives from connecting with everyday Americans, according to a memo prepared by a left-leaning think tank and aimed at helping Democrats regain their common touch. —Nolan Finley, Twin Cities, 11 Sep. 2025 But the wildfires afford the 97th Academy Awards an opportunity to step outside the velvet rope and display a common touch. —Stephen Humphries, Christian Science Monitor, 18 Feb. 2025 Carter was then, and always, an American original, an uncommon man with an innate genuine common touch. —Nicholas W. Allard, Sun Sentinel, 31 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for common touch
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ABC News, 21 Feb. 2026 Their pretentious vocabulary is what’s keeping progressives from connecting with everyday Americans, according to a memo prepared by a left-leaning think tank and aimed at helping Democrats regain their common touch. —Nolan Finley, Twin Cities, 11 Sep. 2025 But the wildfires afford the 97th Academy Awards an opportunity to step outside the velvet rope and display a common touch. —Stephen Humphries, Christian Science Monitor, 18 Feb. 2025 Carter was then, and always, an American original, an uncommon man with an innate genuine common touch. —Nicholas W. Allard, Sun Sentinel, 31 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for common touch
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