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.
• Geddes’ claim flew in the face of the conventional wisdom.
  — Christopher Preston, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2022
• After all, that’s the conventional wisdom that many of us grew up with.
  — Mckale Montgomery, The Conversation, 19 May 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
• Sometimes the best way to avoid crowds is to defy conventional wisdom.
  — Christopher Elliott, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2022
• The conventional wisdom is that hiring slows in the summer, and that's true to some extent, but keep tabs on new postings and be ready to apply.
  — Rachel Loock, USA TODAY, 28 June 2022
• In 2023, the idea that the internet isn’t fun anymore is conventional wisdom.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 23 Dec. 2023
• Instead, the field’s conventional wisdom for decades has been to take baby steps.
  — Quanta Magazine, 11 Aug. 2023
• The results of the midterm elections, where Trump allies took a beating, cracked open that conventional wisdom.
  — Robert Costa, CBS News, 4 Dec. 2022
• The Celtics are on the doorstep of a championship with a foundation that goes against what has become conventional wisdom about team-building in the N.B.A.
  — New York Times, 12 June 2022
• That just about summed up the conventional wisdom—at least among Trump’s opponents.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 14 Nov. 2022
• The conventional wisdom is that blood and guts is too much for most Academy voters, but Guadagnino is here to tell you that’s not always the case.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 16 Nov. 2022
• The conventional wisdom says it’s an awful place to work—bad for your sleep, your body and your relationship.
  — WSJ, 8 Nov. 2022
• Is there any conventional wisdom about where the next pandemic might come from?
  — Jonathan Wolfe, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022
• One more reason why the new conventional wisdom on divorce is dead wrong.
  — W. Bradford Wilcox, National Review, 1 Nov. 2022
• The winners and failures defied conventional wisdom about the health of whatever genres went in and out of vogue.
  — Ryan Faughnderstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2022
• The conventional wisdom about Biden has swung back and forth multiple times, usually moving back in his favor by the time the voters head to the polls.
  — W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner, 16 Jan. 2023
• The conventional wisdom now seems to be that Judge has raised the bar considerably and forced the Yankees to give Judge more years and more dollars to retain his services.
  — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 15 June 2022
• But in the year that followed, a conventional wisdom settled into place — one rooted in the public personas in which, fairly or not, each of the artists had been cast.
  — Kara Voght, Rolling Stone, 23 Dec. 2022
• But Dana Brown and the Braves were one of baseball's most creative front offices in recent years, with a penchant for striking deals outside of the conventional wisdom.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 6 Feb. 2023
• This, too, became conventional wisdom—that voters didn’t care about the fate of the country, and that Democrats were wasting their time talking about such airy-fairy nonsense.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 9 Nov. 2022
• Wintertime is peace time, or so goes the conventional wisdom in the South Caucasus.
  — Simon Maghakyan, Time, 15 Dec. 2022
• The conventional wisdom is that Mr. Biden has helped Ukraine while carefully avoiding a wider war with Russia.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2023
• The conventional wisdom often goes out the window in such cases—though no one expected Netflix to be the one doing the tossing.
  — Toni Fitzgerald, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024