lowest common denominator
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Moving forward, perhaps the American food media could hold its readers to a higher standard rather than pandering to the lowest common denominator, which is precisely what happens when it measures women against a towering figure like Child.
As a member-run trade association, their position is often driven by the lowest common denominator.
America’s Food Safety System Failed to Stop a Salmonella Epidemic. It’s Still Making People Sick. | by Bernice Yeung, Michael Grabell, Irena Hwang and Mollie Simon | October 29, 2021 | ProPublicaWe kind of reduce things to the lowest common denominator, in some ways for good and in some ways not for good.
Daphne Merkin on Lena Dunham, Book Criticism, and Self-Examination | Mindy Farabee | December 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTlowest common denominator campaigning and dumb pandering in this country dates back to at least the presidential election of 1800.
But the vast history of journalism has been about bias and yellow journalism and selling out to the lowest common denominator.
The Director Isn’t Done Yet: An Interview With Steven Soderbergh | Andrew Romano | August 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
What will sexual liberation look like at the bottom-feeding, lowest common denominator?
Were Christians Right About Gay Marriage All Along? | Jay Michaelson | May 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPredictably, a communiqué that represents a consensus among such actors expresses a lowest common denominator.
In a fortuitous assembly of such people the lowest common denominator of morality is easily adopted as the standard.
The Law and the Poor | Edward Abbott ParryThat is a result of a mathematical mind; perhaps she can reduce even names to their lowest common denominator.'
A City Schoolgirl | May BaldwinLife was reduced to the lowest common denominator, the natural companionship of man, woman, and nature.
The Dual Alliance | Marjorie Benton Cooke
British Dictionary definitions for lowest common denominator
the smallest integer or polynomial that is exactly divisible by each denominator of a set of fractions: Abbreviation: LCD, lcd Also called: least common denominator
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Scientific definitions for lowest common denominator
[ lō′ĭst ]
The least common multiple of the denominators of a set of fractions. For example, the lowest common denominator of 13 and 34 is 12.
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Cultural definitions for lowest common denominator
The smallest number that can be divided evenly into two other numbers (see common denominator). When fractions with different denominators are added together, their denominators have to be made the same; thus, fractions with denominators of nine and twelve have thirty-six as a lowest common denominator. Seventy-two and 108 are also common denominators for fractions with denominators of nine and twelve, but thirty-six is the lowest.
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