prevailing belief

collocation in English

meaningsofprevailingandbelief

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prevailing
adjective
uk
/prɪˈveɪ.lɪŋ/us
/prɪˈveɪ.lɪŋ/
existing in a particular place or at a ...
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belief
noun[C or S or U]
uk
/bɪˈliːf/us
/bɪˈliːf/
the feeling of being certain that something exists or ...
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(Definition ofprevailingandbelieffrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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For the same reason, theprevailingbeliefthat the beginning part and the ending part of the projectile trajectory are straight lines had definitely to be dismissed.
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It was much more difficult for them to do so and there was noprevailingbeliefthat they should.
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That involved sending help to 1,000,000 destitute adults and 2,000,000 children and, quite contrary to what is theprevailingbelief, this was not a one-sided show.
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This was an extraordinary amount of land to consider, and theprevailingbeliefwas that only spectacular landforms warranted protection.
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In the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, theprevailingbeliefwas that languages could be reliably associated with archaeological cultures.
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Theprevailingbeliefat the time was that the anti-war and civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s had foreign funding and support.
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Although the trumpet's valves are normally designed to be operated with the right hand, theprevailingbeliefis that left-handed trumpeters are not at a significant disadvantage.
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Germans felt that they the country had signed away her honor and there was aprevailingbeliefof humiliation as the article was seen, overall, as an injustice.
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He became interested in studying the flow of water at various depths and was responsible for disproving theprevailingbeliefthat speed of water increases with depth.
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His studies were among the most influential to counter theprevailingbeliefin the 1980s that eukaryotic genes, like previously studied bacterial genes, were predominantly subjected to transcriptional activation.
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