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received
Definition of received
: generally accepted : common a healthy skepticism about received explanations — B. K. Lewalski
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Examples of received in a Sentence
What was radical thinking in times past has become received wisdom today.
traditionally the received opinion was that, in the event of a divorce, the mother should get custody of the children
Recent Examples of received from the Web
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The children, a 2-year-old and a 6-month-old, received emergency treatment but both later died due to their injuries.
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Received entries become the property of Sponsors and will not be returned or acknowledged.
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During 2015, 25 girls between the ages of 10 and 14 received abortions in Indiana, and another 219 girls between 15 and 17 also ended their pregnancies, according to a report from the Indiana State Department of Health.
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Received hundreds of calls from civic organizations and churches requesting for Mr. Cosby to speak to young men and women about the judicial system.
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The couple met in 2007 while students at Cornell Law School, and began dating in 2011, after both had received law degrees and started their careers.
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Victims of Bernard Madoff's huge Ponzi scheme have so far received no repayments from the company the Department of Justice tapped to distribute $4 billion recovered from the notorious fraud.
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This is the constant and received teaching of the Church.
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Or not their thinking, exactly, but their attempts to disrupt the received ideas about any number of things, including race and what constitutes a society.
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First Known Use of received
15th century
RECEIVED Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of received for English Language Learners
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: widely accepted
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