general consensus
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgeneralandconsensus
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general
adjective
uk/ˈdʒen.ər.əl/us/ˈdʒen.ər.əl/
involving or relating to most or all people, things, or places, especially when these are considered as ...
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consensus
noun[S or U]
uk/kənˈsen.səs/us/kənˈsen.səs/
a generally accepted opinion or decision among a group ...
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(Definition ofgeneralandconsensusfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This review has shown that there is ageneralconsensusthat bilinguals rely on a single shared conceptual store.
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Nevertheless, there is ageneralconsensuson two issues regarding empirical findings on adolescent depression.
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Evans seemed confident that ageneralconsensuson each had already been reached.
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There isgeneralconsensusthat maximum urethral pressure, maximum urethral closure and length of the functional urethra decrease with age in women.
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On the one hand, there is ageneralconsensusthat we must talk about the self as an artifact of writing.
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There is now ageneralconsensusin language teaching that the use of authentic materials in the classroom is beneficial to the learning process.
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This seems especially appropriate because there is ageneralconsensusthat they are the dimensions of wellbeing.
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There was ageneralconsensusthat artists should be better educated.
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Manifold divergences among officials concerning the extension of such a criterion are compatible with ageneralconsensuson the criterion's intension.
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In conclusion, the research, notwithstanding its methodological limitations, registered ageneralconsensus concerning which sources of personal meaning were most and least important to respondents.
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A second point ofgeneralconsensusconcerns the dynastic polities that overlay these residential units.
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It seems far too optimistic about the presumption ofgeneralconsensusfor rational thinking.
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There is nogeneralconsensusin the literature on the type and number of composite changes that are necessary.
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On the other hand, thegeneralconsensusis that secondary baby talk is not an outcome of effective adjustments for elderly hearers.
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There is ageneralconsensusthat positive input alone cannot explain the child's retreat from error.
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To discuss "secularization" and "professionalization" of science before the nineteenth century is, bygeneralconsensus, to flirt with anachronism.
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The lack ofgeneralconsensuson the profile of atypical morphological acquisition underscores the need for further research.
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While each of these hypotheses is plausible, none has been sufficiently convincing to bring ageneralconsensusamong scholars for this type of object.
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