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Recent Examples of consensus Trump’s comments on Taiwan have been unusually harsh for China policy in Washington, where there is a general bipartisan consensus to be tough on Beijing and Xi, who has pledged to reunify with Taipei, by force if necessary. Brad Dress, The Hill, 2 Nov. 2024 Of course rural workers, whose real wages and life expectancies keep falling, are not mourning the death of the free-market consensus. Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024 With its 16 electoral votes, Georgia has long been considered one of seven consensus battleground states. Elyse Apel | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 1 Nov. 2024 There is a bipartisan consensus that China poses an existential threat to the U.S. — one much bigger than Russia does. Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 1 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for consensus 

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