conventional wisdom
noun
: the generally accepted belief, opinion, judgment, or prediction about a particular matter
Examples of conventional wisdom in a Sentence
Conventional wisdom in Hollywood says that a movie can't succeed unless it stars a famous actor or actress.
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Whether led by great hubris or sweet naivete, Treadwell ignored all common sense and conventional wisdom about the animals and began to consider them as friends.
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Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024
Ben Barry, land warfare analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said that while its wider strategic goals remained unclear, Ukraine had exposed Russian shortcomings and overturned the conventional wisdom on the war that neither side could advance without heavy losses.
—Reuters, NBC News, 10 Aug. 2024
Join 3 others in the comments View Comments But in today’s history-defying economy, conventional wisdom has sometimes proven useless.
—Bryan Mena, CNN, 3 Aug. 2024
Walter Shapiro, a political reporter who covered 12 presidential elections for leading magazines and newspapers, puncturing conventional wisdom with unconventional insight and brightening the campaign trail with his inimitable wit, died July 21 at a hospital in Manhattan.
—Emily Langer, Washington Post, 22 July 2024
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Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024
Ben Barry, land warfare analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said that while its wider strategic goals remained unclear, Ukraine had exposed Russian shortcomings and overturned the conventional wisdom on the war that neither side could advance without heavy losses.
—Reuters, NBC News, 10 Aug. 2024
Join 3 others in the comments View Comments But in today’s history-defying economy, conventional wisdom has sometimes proven useless.
—Bryan Mena, CNN, 3 Aug. 2024
Walter Shapiro, a political reporter who covered 12 presidential elections for leading magazines and newspapers, puncturing conventional wisdom with unconventional insight and brightening the campaign trail with his inimitable wit, died July 21 at a hospital in Manhattan.
—Emily Langer, Washington Post, 22 July 2024
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