conventional wisdom in English

noun
1
a generally accepted theory or belief.
conventional wisdom has it that a book should never be judged by its cover

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1. That trade that seems to defy conventional wisdom?

2. I wasn't weighed down by expertise or conventional wisdom.

3. Scaling: Conventional wisdom says reduce cost by producing many.

4. Now, the conventional wisdom was that Nigerians don't read literature.

5. Conventional wisdom has it that riots only ever happen in cities.

6. Being in diametrical opposition: a viewpoint that was Antithetical to conventional wisdom

7. In the conventional wisdom, none the less, the balanced budget remained of paramount importance.

8. Conventional wisdom opinions or theories that have existed for a long time and that most people agree with: The book challenges the Conventional wisdom that companies are engaged in a " war " for talent

9. As traffic grew, the conventional wisdom was that roads should be widened to make room.

10. 29 Having said that and confirmed the conventional wisdom, however, Butler and Stokes went further.

11. The Conventional wisdom Common knowledge that is held to be true, but may not be

12. 22 It is easy to see why the conventional wisdom resists so stoutly such change.

13. The conventional wisdom now holds that these measures softened and civilized capitalism and made it tenable.

14. This paper overturns this conventional wisdom about Backscatter and presents the first wide-area Backscatter system

15. The conventional wisdom has been that business actually makes a profit by causing a social problem.

16. On this question, the conventional wisdom -- in all its hair-on-fire banality -- is absolutely right.

17. In contending with the conventional wisdom, he, no less than others, needed the support of circumstances.

18. This is the point in the draft where Backcast departs from conventional wisdom and never comes back

19. Conventional wisdom does not take into account all the facts and does not satisfy all man’s needs.

20. If the conventional wisdom about nutrition had failed me, was it possible it was failing someone else?

21. Up to now, the conventional wisdom has been that Clinton would run considerable risk by opposing the initiative.

22. But, in general, the articulation of the conventional wisdom is a prerogative of academic, public or business position.

23. Conventional wisdom says that a retailer that crams stores close to one another will cannibalize own-store sales .

24. Union consciousness and the activists Conventional wisdom attributes women's low participation in union affairs largely to domestic responsibilities.

25. This pre-eminently is an occasion when we would expect the conventional wisdom to lose touch with the reality.

26. See also: Conventional, wisdom the received wisdom Common knowledge that is held to be true, but may not be

27. 28 The conventional wisdom having been made more or less identical with sound scholarship, its position is virtually impregnable.

28. The Conventional wisdom says to feed a cold and starve a fever, but that doesn't reflect current medical practice

29. 29 Another challenge to the conventional wisdom of our trade is cooking under the sponsorship of the Pew Foundation.

30. Use of strontium to encourage Coralline algae was 'conventional wisdom' with reefing decades ago, but is no longer generally mentioned

31. STACK Expert Mitch Calvert makes the case for carb Backloading and ignoring the conventional wisdom about breakfast, with one exception—for endurance athletes.

32. The filmmakers had bucked conventional wisdom by casting Mr. Smith as a drunken antihero who needs as much help as he can offer others.

33. The conventional wisdom is the link represents a form of "self-medication" — that is, people are using drugs long-term to medicate their own misery.

34. It takes the base metal of our conventional wisdom and transforms it through ridicule into a different way of seeing and ultimately being in the world.

35. Astroturfed messaging nearly always uses inflammatory language like “crank”, “quack”, “nuts”, “pseudo”, “anti-science”, “conspiracy”, or something similar to describe the person or message questioning conventional “wisdom” on a particular topic

36. 3. While conventional wisdom dictates that economic and military power are the determinants of international power projection, today the role of soft power, as an important adjunct, can hardly be overrated.

37. Conventional wisdom says that you need at least four fixed motor propeller pairs in order to fly, because there are four degrees of freedom to control: roll, pitch, yaw and acceleration.

38. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the 350 million pounds of paper thrown out each day by Americans and an unknown tonnage worldwide does not break down and disappear in landfills even under tons of garbage for years.

39. Ensure that the current conventional wisdom of privatization and government withdrawal from financial sector issues does not mean government abdication of its responsibilities, including the creation of an appropriate regulatory environment, with clear penalties for non-performers;

40. Election saw high turnout, a huge increase in Absentee voting, and brought unified Democratic control at the federal level — yet, contrary to conventional wisdom, these facts do not imply that vote-by-mail increased turnout or had partisan effects

41. ‘The research lends Credence to the notion that common bacterial infections might play a role in determining who is stricken with the debilitating neurological disorder.’ ‘In fact, scholarly research lends Credence to the observational accounts of the mainstream news media and the conventional wisdom of partisan practitioners.’

42. ‘The research lends Credence to the notion that common bacterial infections might play a role in determining who is stricken with the debilitating neurological disorder.’ ‘In fact, scholarly research lends Credence to the observational accounts of the mainstream news media and the conventional wisdom of partisan practitioners.’

43. Aerial Aftermaths is a powerful, timely and elegantly crafted book that shrewdly subverts the optics of war." -- Peter Hobbins ― Cultural Studies Review Published On: 2018-11-28 "Kaplan troubles both the conventional wisdom that vision from above results in the immediately legible and its opposite: that vision from above evacuates the

44. 'A major contribution to our understanding of the historical origins of 'Benthamism' presents a bold challenge to the conventional wisdom that the Panopticon was an enormous failure, emphasizing the centrality of Bentham's efforts to give concrete form to the principles of his utilitarianism in the Panopticon, and locates in this one of the important sources of modernity.'

45. The implication on page 33 that these experiments "raise serious questions about the validity of the conventional wisdom of igneous, metamorphic, and/or hydrothermal processes of formation for these Biotites and their host rocks" is silly.The high-temperature origin of igneous and metamorphic rocks, the relatively low-temperature origin of some pegmatites, veins, and some other igneous-like