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Recent Examples of consensus Market consensus is that further stimulus is needed to bolster a fragile economic recovery, Reuters reported. Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 27 June 2025 The consensus opinion is that the Social Security trust funds will be in dire straits in the next 10 years and that recipients will take an approximately 20% haircut. Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 27 June 2025 Among the most prominent leaders of the modern LGBTQ+ movement, there is consensus on many things. Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2025 Cooper Flagg’s journey to the NBA Flagg was a no-brainer selection at No. 1 as the consensus top player in the draft despite starting college a year earlier than most prospects after reclassifying to graduate from high school a year earlier in 2024. Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for consensus
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Noun
  • A couple of questions remain: What happens if the tariffs go into place, ending the 2019 agreement?
    Ken Roberts, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
  • These issues have driven a cycle of reciprocal tariffs and have made further comprehensive agreements difficult to achieve in recent years.
    Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Even though all the beds are empty, the heart monitors beside them are still beeping, in unison, at seventy-five beats per minute.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
  • Protesters marched in unison with the hundreds of Cubans who had been arrested, beaten up and censored for protesting openly on the island.
    Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 13 June 2025

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