prevailing opinion

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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opinion
noun
uk
/əˈpɪn.jən/us
/əˈpɪn.jən/
a thought or belief about something ...
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(Definition ofprevailingandopinionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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There was good reason, however, to think that the verdict did reflectprevailingopinion.
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The existence of an informal institution gets buttressed about byprevailingopinionand by personal interest.
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Such was theprevailingopinion.
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It follows almost of course that institutional development drives a fault line between current fact andprevailingopinion.
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According to theprevailingopinionof that period, families were leaving older people to fend for themselves within the framework of the newly established 'welfare state'.
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Theprevailingopinionat the moment is that cancer is not an infectious disease.
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He spoke of the difficulty of ascertaining what theprevailingopinionwas.
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It concluded that theprevailingopinionin government and in the universities was against this course.
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When we were taking evidence, theprevailingopinionwas that military activity would not work.
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Theprevailingopinionis that it simply does not work.
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We found theprevailingopinionto be that angling matters should be democratically controlled by those intimately involved.
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Nevertheless, that seems to be theprevailingopinionin the highest circles, and we must of course prepare for it.
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I venture to say that that is theprevailingopinionin any ordinary officers' mess to-day.
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There is aprevailingopinion, quite erroneous, as everyone knows in the country who knows well enough, that the farmer is always making money.
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But we do recognise that he has a remarkable faculty for expressing the generalprevailingopinionof the man in the street.
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However, theprevailingopinionamong the reformers at the time was to first loosen price control.
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This seems to be theprevailingopinionamong speech pathologists today.
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After theprevailingopinionis the single line if a company other company actually controlled.
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That is not to say that theprevailingopinionin favour of the scheme meant that the scheme when published did not meet with some very severe criticism.
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Theprevailingopinionwas that the wreck would be unsalveagable for anything more than a pitiful museum display.
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Despite theprevailingopinionthat young women do nt get breast cancer, the reality is that they can and do.
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Theprevailingopinionwas that the opportunity cost could not be applied outside of cases of limited resources.
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Further, the university's academics will only be able to challengeprevailingopinionif they are independent of government funding.
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Despite theprevailingopinionthat young women do not get breast cancer, the reality is that they can and do.
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I repeat, scheme can only be made where there is aprevailingopinion—a very substantial majority—among the section affected, in this case the curers, in favour of the scheme.
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