prevailing wisdom

collocation in English

meaningsofprevailingandwisdom

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prevailing
adjective
uk
/prɪˈveɪ.lɪŋ/us
/prɪˈveɪ.lɪŋ/
existing in a particular place or at a ...
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wisdom
noun[U]
uk
/ˈwɪz.dəm/us
/ˈwɪz.dəm/
the ability to use your knowledge and experience to make good decisions ...
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(Definition ofprevailingandwisdomfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This book supports suchprevailingwisdom, but goes much further.
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Whatever theprevailingwisdom, since becoming a fixture of the presidential season the debates have attracted huge audiences and loomed large over every campaign.
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One was that penitence and holiness were not to be bought at the price of asceticism, a position going against theprevailingwisdom.
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Our efforts to use statistical methods to explain environmental successes and failures seem to confirm some aspects of theprevailingwisdom.
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Theprevailingwisdomis that companies will invest.
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Indeed, theprevailingwisdomwas that without tax breaks companies were unlikely to invest.
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I had thought that it was theprevailingwisdomin all three main parties that we should move further in that direction, not go in the opposite direction.
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It was theprevailingwisdomthat a popular revolution would occur soon.
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This paper provided an argument againstprevailingwisdomand advocated the idea that fossils were the remains of actual once-living organisms.
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This was in direct contrast to theprevailingwisdomof previous years that libraries weren't really necessary, and money spent on them was better spent elsewhere.
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Yoshimura refused to believe theprevailingwisdomthat westerners could not understand, appreciate, or technically master bonsai.
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