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.
• In a year of research, the knight finds many possible answers but no consensus.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• This year’s comes as large swaths of the U.S. struggle to reach consensus on what is real.
  — Anna Furman, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Dec. 2024
• The stock now trades at a mere 2x consensus FY’23 revenues, down from over 6x pre-pandemic.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
• And the meeting did not yield a consensus that the case was strong and ready to be brought, with various participants raising serious legal and factual concerns.
  — Andrew Weissmann, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2023
• But overall there is a mass consensus that putting the country under martial law was an inexcusable action, no matter what motivated the president to do so.
  — Joohee Cho, ABC News, 12 Dec. 2024
• With no consensus, the Bureau of Reclamation will now begin to review alternatives.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2023
• 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
• While no one else's meat was as tough as mine, the consensus from our group of six was that the food was bad.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
• There’s no clear consensus on when and how these dogs should be used to bite.
  — Abbie Vansickle and Challen Stephens, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2020
• The group could not come to a consensus on no-knock warrants, the report said.
  — Molly Beck, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2021
• But when something seems to work, try it, was the consensus.
  — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 23 July 2022
• But ask around the industry and the Dodgers are the consensus front-runners to sign Ohtani.
  — Jorge Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2023
• Once there is a consensus about what is wrong and why, the new norms must be enforced.
  — The Economist, 19 Dec. 2017

Last Updated: 29 Dec 2024