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Meanings of conventional wisdom in English

Russian
конвенциональная мудрость
Spanish
sabiduria convencional
Catalan
saviesa convencional

/Received opinion or orthodoxy(religion): explanations accepted by the public &/or experts.

конвенциональная мудрость
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Examples for "received view"
Examples for "received view"
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This received view finds no home in the substantially more complex landscape of contemporary particle physics and cosmology.
The Guardian
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The most generally received view makes him a god of light, especially of the sun or of the lightning.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
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The commonly received view of the position of the cotton-planter is that he is in a chronic state of debt.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 / A Magazine...
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According to the received view in Westminster, last year's vote against Scottish independence could easily have gone the other way (it was never going to).
The Irish Times
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The New Yorker, May 16, 1931 P. 84 Your favor has not been received View Article
The new yorker
Usage of conventional wisdom in English
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In several ways, Wigwam defies the conventional wisdom of today's global market.
Reuters
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The conventional wisdom is that a major restructuring will address the crisis.
The South African
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They want mystery and romance, not sterile common sense or conventional wisdom.
The Guardian
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The food science literature doesn't seem to support the conventional wisdom, though.
Cooking for geeks: real science, great hacks, and good food
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Working together, journalists and experts are the architects of much conventional wisdom.
Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of ever...
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Contrary to the conventional wisdom, there are many great films about football.
The Irish Times
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Yet the conventional wisdom turned out to be right on the money.
The Irish Times
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Science, and conventional wisdom, says that we should expect Brady's inevitable decline.
The Guardian
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It also shattered many tenets of conventional wisdom held at the start.
The Irish Times
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The conventional wisdom is that people become more conservative as they age.
The Guardian
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But at the time this was by no means the conventional wisdom.
The Return of Depression Economics
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Not as much as conventional wisdom has it, would be my answer.
The Irish Times
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The conventional wisdom is that we have never had it so good.
The Irish Times
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Kroll cited airports as one area where it could shake conventional wisdom.
Reuters
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The CIA's analysts learned to march in lockstep, conforming to conventional wisdom.
Legacy of ashes: the history of the cia
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The savannah-as-cradle narrative is not the only conventional wisdom upset by Ardi.
Wired
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