received

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Synonyms of received next

past tense and past participle of receive

received

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adjective

re·ceived ri-ˈsēvd

: generally accepted : common

a healthy skepticism about received explanations—

B. K. Lewalski

Examples of received in a Sentence

Adjective What was radical thinking in times past has become received wisdom today. traditionally the received opinion was that, in the event of a divorce, the mother should get custody of the children

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Adjective

Part of what’s important in that time and before is to break these barriers of standard genres — painting and sculpture and stuff like that — and treat them as ordinary objects, questioning the received or accepted technical strategies. —

Adam Bradley, New York Times, 16 May 2024 The button will vibrate to indicate a received input. —

PCMAG, 16 Apr. 2024 But despite this vetting, The Hollywood Reporter has discovered several inconsistencies regarding both his work history and recent romantic entanglements that contradict the received narrative. —

Barbara Lippert, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Nov. 2023 The series stands apart, though, for showing how Banerjee, born in India, uses a learned idea of American appetites to pursue a received idea of the American dream. —

James Poniewozik, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2022 See all Example Sentences for received