conventional wisdom
noun
: the generally accepted belief, opinion, judgment, or prediction about a particular matter
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Conventional wisdom in Hollywood says that a movie can't succeed unless it stars a famous actor or actress.
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Contrary to conventional wisdom, their research shows that seeking out scares for sport—watching a horror film or visiting a haunted house, for example—is linked to greater resilience among adults and, when age-appropriate, a lower risk for childhood anxiety.
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Delaney Rebernik, Time, 27 Oct. 2025
The conventional wisdom sees meager job growth as largely a result of immigration restrictions and demographics, disconnected from still-healthy GDP-tracking models that capture urgent capex levels and free spending by the affluent.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2025
The discrepancy between what the researchers found and the conventional wisdom regarding typhus' impact on Napoleon's army likely has to do with the DNA analysis tools now available to researchers.
—New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2025
But Burns also doesn’t take the conventional wisdom that the America of today is more divided than at any other point since the Revolution.
—Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
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Delaney Rebernik, Time, 27 Oct. 2025
The conventional wisdom sees meager job growth as largely a result of immigration restrictions and demographics, disconnected from still-healthy GDP-tracking models that capture urgent capex levels and free spending by the affluent.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2025
The discrepancy between what the researchers found and the conventional wisdom regarding typhus' impact on Napoleon's army likely has to do with the DNA analysis tools now available to researchers.
—New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2025
But Burns also doesn’t take the conventional wisdom that the America of today is more divided than at any other point since the Revolution.
—Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
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“Conventional wisdom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conventional%20wisdom. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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