How to Use conventional wisdom in a Sentence

conventional wisdom

noun

• Conventional wisdom in Hollywood says that a movie can't succeed unless it stars a famous actor or actress.
• Geddes’ claim flew in the face of the conventional wisdom.
  — Christopher Preston, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2022
• That flies in the face of conventional wisdom, which suggests that prices should slide as rates rise.
  — Alex Harring, CNBC, 13 July 2024
• After all, that’s the conventional wisdom that many of us grew up with.
  — Mckale Montgomery, The Conversation, 19 May 2022
• And conventional wisdom would have it as Hill’s job to lose.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Mar. 2022
• With the shot clock off and the score locked at 46, conventional wisdom would have called for Valley Vista’s star senior point guard to slow the game down.
  — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 4 Mar. 2023
• Some of the new evidence challenges the conventional wisdom that had formed around the killing.
  — Jill Cowan, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• And one thing that's fascinating is that the conventional wisdom, which used to be true, used to be that this is about the power of the NRA.
  — NBC News, 29 May 2022
• On one hand, tip your hat to a team that has the courage to eschew conventional wisdom and pick kids way ahead of where they were slated to go.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 29 June 2023
• Contrary to conventional wisdom, the power to abolish the monarchy doesn’t lie with the monarch alone.
  — Time, 15 Sep. 2022
• Now a study from the research firm Pied Piper appears to turn that conventional wisdom on its head.
  — John Voelcker, Car and Driver, 20 July 2022
• The conventional wisdom for what to do if you're caught in a rip current is to swim parallel to shore to try and escape it.
  — Cara Korte, CBS News, 6 June 2023
• But against all conventional wisdom, Canonero won — and then did it again two weeks later in the Preakness.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 8 May 2022
• Sometimes the best way to avoid crowds is to defy conventional wisdom.
  — Christopher Elliott, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2022
• And that was sort of the conventional wisdom for a lot of gay comedians.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2022
• The conventional wisdom among analysts is that Haney and Campos will face off in the runoff.
  — Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Jan. 2022
• The size of the ballot won’t set a record — the conventional wisdom is voters will see 10, maybe 11, statewide propositions this fall.
  — John Myers, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2022
• But when the election was all said and done, was that conventional wisdom correct?
  — Galen Druke, ABC News, 15 May 2024
• The conventional wisdom is that hiring slows in the summer, and that's true to some extent, but keep tabs on new postings and be ready to apply.
  — Rachel Loock, USA TODAY, 28 June 2022
• The conventional wisdom was to swing straight through the zone, to maximize contact.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2024
• In 2023, the idea that the internet isn’t fun anymore is conventional wisdom.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 23 Dec. 2023
• Instead, the field’s conventional wisdom for decades has been to take baby steps.
  — Quanta Magazine, 11 Aug. 2023
• The results of the midterm elections, where Trump allies took a beating, cracked open that conventional wisdom.
  — Robert Costa, CBS News, 4 Dec. 2022
• The Celtics are on the doorstep of a championship with a foundation that goes against what has become conventional wisdom about team-building in the N.B.A.
  — New York Times, 12 June 2022
• That just about summed up the conventional wisdom—at least among Trump’s opponents.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 14 Nov. 2022
• The conventional wisdom is that blood and guts is too much for most Academy voters, but Guadagnino is here to tell you that’s not always the case.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 16 Nov. 2022
• The conventional wisdom says it’s an awful place to work—bad for your sleep, your body and your relationship.
  — WSJ, 8 Nov. 2022
• Is there any conventional wisdom about where the next pandemic might come from?
  — Jonathan Wolfe, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022
• This is conventional wisdom and has been the design principle for e-CNY as well.
  — Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2022
• Powell, in contrast, has stuck to the genres that conventional wisdom has long held were dead: Romantic comedies.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 18 July 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024