How to Use consensus in a Sentence

consensus

noun

• There is a lack of consensus among the citizens.
• The decision was made by consensus.
• Everyone on the council seems to understand the need for consensus.
• Among the Celtics, there is no consensus about how much securing the top spot even matters.
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2023
• The jury is still out on that, as scientists don’t have enough evidence to form a consensus.
  — WIRED, 27 Mar. 2023
• Alexander said Eng was able to build consensus around a plan with bike and pedestrian amenities.
  — Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2023
• Anytime the camera cut to any group in any configuration, the consensus was clear — Rome was the name.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2024
• The high court has failed to reach consensus on a policy despite discussion that dates to at least 2019.
  — Jonathan O'Connell and Ann E. Marimow, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Mar. 2023
• Analysts’ consensus forecast had been forecasting earnings per share to slip to 59 cents.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 23 Oct. 2024
• The equipment manufacturer beat consensus earnings forecasts for the third quarter, despite a 4% fall in year-on-year sales.
  — Karen Gilchrist,jenni Reid,holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2024
• Krauss explained that anything that is marked as a consensus statement in the AOA’s report is to be viewed as an opinion rather than a matter of fact.
  — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 29 Mar. 2023
• There is no consensus on what constitutes a mass shooting; groups define it differently, depending on the circumstances.
  — Jesus Jiménez, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2023
• While there remains no consensus about what the details of ESG are in measurable terms, there is growing agreement on what the concept itself means.
  — Chris Carosa, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• Two of the world’s largest climate polluters, the US and China, did not express support, but did not object meaning the measure passed by consensus.
  — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 29 Mar. 2023
• There exists no majority in Congress for such a program because there exists no consensus that bailing out the most privileged members of our society is a good idea.
  — The Editors, National Review, 24 Oct. 2024
• Wake Forest was the consensus No. 1 the rest of the way.
  — Eric Olson, ajc, 23 June 2023
• The consensus then became that the rest of the moon was dry.
  — Fox News, 16 Mar. 2020
• That didn’t seem to be the consensus among my friends, though.
  — Ruthie Ackerman, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2023
• There is still no consensus on whether the virus did leak from the Wuhan lab.
  — Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner, 5 Mar. 2023
• Despite the lack of consensus on the cause of that uptick, there are some clear trends.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024
• And if there was no consensus, then the girls’ schools would not open.
  — New York Times, 8 Aug. 2022
• They’re cursed, and there’s no consensus on a cause or how to break it.
  — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 11 Mar. 2023
• In the lead-up to the wedding, there wasn’t a clear consensus about which tiara Markle would wear.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 19 May 2018
• But there seems to be a consensus that the number is not small.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 11 June 2021
• But the consensus is the AL features more top-tier clubs.
  — Jorge Castillo, latimes.com, 13 July 2019
• But even small points of consensus could be hard to come by.
  — Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 8 May 2023
• These are the issues that tug to the appeal of wider consensus....
  — Rebecca Beitsch, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 July 2018
• Rodríguez is a consensus top-five prospect in the sport.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 11 July 2021
• There never was consensus among the creators of the game.
  — Dorothy Dworkin, Sun Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2022
• While no one else’s meat was as tough as mine, the consensus from our group of six was that the food was bad.
  — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024