prevailing attitude

collocation in English

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prevailing
adjective
uk
/prɪˈveɪ.lɪŋ/us
/prɪˈveɪ.lɪŋ/
existing in a particular place or at a ...
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attitude
noun
uk
/ˈæt.ɪ.tʃuːd/us
/ˈæt̬.ə.tuːd/
a feeling or opinion about something or someone, or a way of behaving that is caused ...
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(Definition ofprevailingandattitudefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Theprevailingattitudethat all experimental data must be statistically analyzed to be of any value is also a detriment to integrated research.
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Theprevailingattitudeis more one of compliance: we will let our children attend, but they should pay as little attention as possible.
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Theprevailingattitude, which is obviously what leads to violence, is also linked to equality.
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However, what was even worse and more striking for me was theprevailingattitudethat this was the women's lot in life.
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In such places, theprevailingattitudeis that if the council cannot get its nose in the trough, it is not worth going to the trough.
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It seems to me that that is the kind ofprevailingattitudewith which we are faced more and more and which must be taken fully into account.
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In 1973, this law was established, radically overturning aprevailingattitudethat long term contaminants bioaccumulating in humans was not problematic.
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The inclusive attitude is quite divergent from, and usually the exact opposite of, theprevailingattitudein most countries worldwide.
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Theprevailingattitudeamong residents and outside observers was that amalgamation would be inevitable and could not be stopped.
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On several occasions in the late 1970s and early 1980s she conducted interviews in order to map prevailing attitudes to women and work.
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A concern with this theory is that while it explains how crowds reflect social ideas and prevailing attitudes, it does not explain the mechanisms by which crowds enact social change.
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