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commonly

 adverb
     
com‧mon‧ly W3
1 usually or by most people [= widely]:
Sodium chloride is more commonly known as salt.
a commonly used industrial chemical
2 often, in many places, or in large numbers [= widely]:
Lung cancer is the most commonly found cancer in men.
commonly available software packages
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