growing consensus

noun

: increasing agreement among people

There is a growing consensus about/on the need for further investigation.

Examples of growing consensus in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The resolution comes despite a growing consensus among legal scholars that Republicans have yet to put forward evidence that Mayorkas has committed an impeachable offense. —Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 1 Feb. 2024

By 2015, following Russia’s annexation of Crimea, there was a growing consensus that Putin’s propaganda had largely succeeded on Russia’s youth, who were too young to remember the fleeting, tumultuous democratic reforms of the 1990s and had never really known democracy. —Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2024

The growing consensus that fighting disinformation is a legitimate government function provided an excuse for autocratic regimes around the world to crack down on critical speech. —Joel Simon, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2024

Despite the growing consensus on the threats posed by China, debates continue over how best to meet them. —Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023

However, there is a growing consensus among researchers that vaccination is protective. —Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2024

There seems to be a growing consensus on Wall Street that the last gasp of inflation is either here already or on its way. —Will Daniel, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2023

With the war between Israel and Hamas intensifying and more than 10,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza, there is a growing consensus that a halt in fighting is needed to protect civilian lives — but the nature of such a move has proved contentious. —Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2023

Although Washington remains bitterly divided on most issues, there is a growing consensus that the era of engagement with China has come to an unceremonious close. —Kurt M. Campbell, Foreign Affairs, 1 Aug. 2019