growing consensus
noun
: increasing agreement among people
There is a growing consensus about/on the need for further investigation.
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There’s now a growing consensus that America’s UI system has been broken for decades, cannot handle another recession, and is in urgent need of a major overhaul.
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Oshan Jarow, Vox, 26 June 2024
The complaints underline a growing consensus in the music industry that licensing is the only proper way forward.
—Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 24 June 2024
But the growing consensus seems to be that India’s economy and pocketbook issues took precedence for many voters over the BJP’s avowedly religious and ideological project.
—Joshua Keating, Vox, 4 June 2024
Moreover, there’s growing consensus in the scientific community around the idea that Mars was once more habitable than its current thin atmosphere and dry surface would imply.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 7 Feb. 2024
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Oshan Jarow, Vox, 26 June 2024
The complaints underline a growing consensus in the music industry that licensing is the only proper way forward.
—Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 24 June 2024
But the growing consensus seems to be that India’s economy and pocketbook issues took precedence for many voters over the BJP’s avowedly religious and ideological project.
—Joshua Keating, Vox, 4 June 2024
Moreover, there’s growing consensus in the scientific community around the idea that Mars was once more habitable than its current thin atmosphere and dry surface would imply.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 7 Feb. 2024
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“Growing consensus.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/growing%20consensus. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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