accepted explanation

collocation in English

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accepted
adjective
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/əkˈsep.tɪd/us
/əkˈsep.t̬ɪd/
generally agreed to be satisfactory ...
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explanation
noun[C or U]
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/ˌek.spləˈneɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌek.spləˈneɪ.ʃən/
the details or reasons that someone gives to make something clear or easy ...
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The husband, who had dementia, was deaf, which provided theacceptedexplanationfor his lack of communication with other group members.
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The widelyacceptedexplanationof this phenomenon is a competitive interaction hypothesis in which inputs from the two eyes are struggling for the common synaptic space.
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The idea that selection for reproduction in youth causes accumulating dysfunction in later adulthood is a commonlyacceptedexplanationfor aging.
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There seems to be no generallyacceptedexplanationfor why some observers see it as green.
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The commonlyacceptedexplanationfor son preference is that sons in rural families are more helpful in farm work.
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Dorsey in the early 20th century and this is still the most widelyacceptedexplanationof the phenomenon today.
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This has become theacceptedexplanationfor the moraine's development, though research in the 1970s suggested the moraine may not be interlobate.
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His derivation is given above, and is now theacceptedexplanation.
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As of 2014 there is noacceptedexplanationfor this sudden change.
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These observations led to a commonlyacceptedexplanationof ion selectivity, which assumes that structural changes play the dominant role.
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The most widelyacceptedexplanationfor the effect is investor under-reaction to earnings announcements.
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Cell theory has become the foundation of biology and is the most widelyacceptedexplanationof the function of cells.
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The extra water pressure created by large reservoirs is the mostacceptedexplanationfor the seismic activity.
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Currently, the most widelyacceptedexplanationfor their origin is in the context of cosmic inflation.
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However, in the time since the publication of this seminal work, no other widelyacceptedexplanationof charge quantization has appeared.
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There is currently no commonlyacceptedexplanationfor the piles.
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A widelyacceptedexplanationlinks amok with male honor (amok by women is virtually unknown).
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Though dark matter is by far the mostacceptedexplanationfor the resolution to the galaxy rotation problem, other proposals have been offered with varying degrees of success.
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The generallyacceptedexplanationfor the streaks is that they are formed from the avalanching of a thin layer of bright dust that is covering a darker surface.
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