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.
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Sell was the conventional wisdom in April, and buy was all the rage during their red-hot May.
— Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 30 June 2021 -
The conventional wisdom for years has been to surround James with shooters, create space for driving and passing lanes and feast on the open looks.
— Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2021 -
At least as far as the national media is concerned, the view that gay rights have been decisively won has become conventional wisdom.
— Omar G. Encarnación, Time, 26 June 2021 -
The records upend conventional wisdom about how taxation works in America.
— Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 8 July 2021 -
Public opinion equally mirrored the new conventional wisdom.
— Thomas Balcerski, CNN, 30 June 2021 -
Contrary to conventional wisdom, saving for college rarely harms most families’ chances of receiving financial aid.
— Susan Paterno, Forbes, 28 June 2021 -
The conventional wisdom matters, because the winner of the debate isn’t just determined by what happened onstage, but also by the spin war that ensues afterward.
— Andrew Prokop, Vox, 11 Sep. 2024 -
My great predecessor in this column, David Carr, wrote at a time when the conventional wisdom was that the internet was destroying journalism.
— New York Times, 11 July 2021 -
The conventional wisdom would be to close down, take your lumps, wait it out, and hope for the best.
— Steve Strauss, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2021 -
Still, the conventional wisdom is that Democrats will get both bills in the end.
— Rich Lowry, National Review, 24 Sep. 2021 -
Geddes’ claim flew in the face of the conventional wisdom.
— Christopher Preston, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2022 -
This dashes much of the conventional wisdom of the Trump era.
— W. James Antle Iii, The Week, 8 Dec. 2021 -
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 conventional wisdom was the race would be tight, and that something little would decide it.
— Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 7 Nov. 2021 -
The conventional wisdom is that Stone and ownership are hot to trot for a win-now blockbuster move to catapult the franchise back into the postseason.
— Rahat Huq, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024 -
Billions have been lost in the effort to square these circles, and the conventional wisdom now is that low-margin online sales are a very different business than high-margin fashion.
— May Truong, alok Gupta, wolfgang Ketter, eric Van Heck, Harvard Business Review, 25 Sep. 2024
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