as in party line
opinions or beliefs that are held or accepted by most people
Conventional wisdom in Hollywood says that a movie can't succeed unless it stars a famous actor or actress.
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Recent Examples of conventional wisdom
The conventional wisdom that all of these international contenders would cannibalize each other seems to have been misguided; with the Globes at least, this global roster appears to be lifting each other up.
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Joe Reid, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2025
At that point Sunday night, conventional wisdom might have suggested a couple of handoffs to calm things down.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 2 Dec. 2025
The conventional wisdom leaving last season was that Siakam was a winner and Ingram was a nice scorer who couldn’t impact winning or stay healthy.
—Eric Koreen, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2025
The conventional wisdom was the Battle for Paul Bunyan’s Axe against Wisconsin on Saturday would be his final regular-season game, but the redshirt junior was not bidding farewell when asked about his future in Wednesday’s news conference.
—Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 26 Nov. 2025
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Joe Reid, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2025
At that point Sunday night, conventional wisdom might have suggested a couple of handoffs to calm things down.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 2 Dec. 2025
The conventional wisdom leaving last season was that Siakam was a winner and Ingram was a nice scorer who couldn’t impact winning or stay healthy.
—Eric Koreen, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2025
The conventional wisdom was the Battle for Paul Bunyan’s Axe against Wisconsin on Saturday would be his final regular-season game, but the redshirt junior was not bidding farewell when asked about his future in Wednesday’s news conference.
—Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 26 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for conventional wisdom
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The Bergen County Board of Elections had a 3-3 party line deadlock in a vote over whether to notify the affected voters, the outlet reported.—
Zac Anderson,
USA Today,
4 Nov. 2025
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Bessent should know all this and is simply towing the party line.—
Matt Fleming,
Oc Register,
26 Oct. 2025
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Mentee’s progress in vision-language-action models, large-scale simulation, and advanced Sim2Real transfer directly complements Mobileye’s autonomy platform, improving generalization, accelerating development, and enabling faster adaptation to new environments.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Jan. 2026
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Some dementia cases may have been missed, and the results are from a Swedish population, which may limit generalization.—
Khloe Quill,
FOXNews.com,
21 Dec. 2025
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In the last year, after all, heartrending images like these have become part of the ordinary, the everyday, the commonplace.—
Leonard Pitts Jr,
Miami Herald,
1 Jan. 2026
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But in between these commonplace alerts are empty spaces people wake into as to a sort of apnea.—
David Searcy,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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Jordan's role on All My Children was originally played by the late Chadwick Boseman, who was fired after just one week on set after criticizing Reggie's character arc for playing into racial stereotypes (Jordan and Boseman would later go on to star together in 2018's Black Panther).—
Sydney Bucksbaum,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Jan. 2026
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Boseman was allegedly let go after voicing his concerns that Reggie’s character relied too much on racial stereotypes.—
Victoria Edel,
PEOPLE,
8 Jan. 2026
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In part, the McKinley administration standardized various press protocols and routines involved in managing the press corps—holding somewhat regular briefings, for example, and carefully timing White House announcements.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
7 Nov. 2025
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Your best bet for starting a routine that sticks?—
Julia Sullivan,
Health,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Conventional wisdom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conventional%20wisdom. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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