Roads, as the word is commonly understood today, did not come into being until the 19th century.

Why do we continue to talk about marriage as if it were a commonly understood state when these differences so obviously exist?

Because the title will be used by those not familiar with the project, use more commonly understood terminology.

Maybe they do think of themselves as being professional in the same, or similar, sense to that which is commonly understood.

Attention is commonly understood as the ability to attend to some things while ignoring others.

But reproduction, as commonly understood in American culture, requires participation of both parents.

This is a commonly understood issue in large distributed systems.

These definitions have little to do with the commonly understood meanings of those terms.

Many words commonly understood in the past can no longer be used.

"It is not commonly understood to cover buildings or storage facilities."