widespread acceptance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofwidespreadandacceptance
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widespread
adjective
uk/ˌwaɪdˈspred/us/ˌwaɪdˈspred/
existing or happening in many places and/or among ...
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acceptance
noun[U]
uk/əkˈsep.təns/us/əkˈsep.təns/
general agreement that something is satisfactory or right, or that someone should be included in ...
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(Definition ofwidespreadandacceptancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Mutual funds appeared at the beginning of 1960 but did not gainwidespreadacceptanceuntil the late 1970s.
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There is nowwidespreadacceptancethat no single method or set of procedures will fit all teachers and learners in all contexts.
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The reason for thewidespreadacceptanceof this assumption is the ease with which it is possible to obtain "garden-path" effects.
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Even if this proposal gainedwidespreadacceptance, a further, more disturbing implication would remain.
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We also hoped thatwidespreadacceptanceof the library would result in the adoption of these extensions by compiler writers.
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There is growing evidence ofwidespreadacceptanceof timbre as a primary surface feature and as a structural device in music across genres.
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Standardization of model representation requires massive conversions from legacy design development platforms, and its success heavily depends on itswidespreadacceptance.
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Some political scientists labelled as ' neopopulism ' the newer variant of populism in the context of globalisation andwidespreadacceptanceof neoliberal policies.
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The first claim has never gainedwidespreadacceptance, and has been challenged in several studies.
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Again, this school of thought has not wonwidespreadacceptanceamong physicists; but again, that is not the point.
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This is, in part, because there is awidespreadacceptancethat small, homely units are desirable for people with dementia.
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Simulators have not yet gainedwidespreadacceptancefor driver testing.
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Although there are many methods of parsing, one in particular has gainedwidespreadacceptancefor use in lazy functional languages.
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Despite this long-standing recognition, an alternative paradigm for studying developmental phenomena has yet to emerge and gainwidespreadacceptancein the scientific community.
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Most existing languages lack appropriate abstractions for parallelism and dedicated parallel languages have failed to gainwidespreadacceptance.
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The concept'swidespreadacceptanceas a descriptive and diagnostic tool, however, cannot obscure the fact that its predictions do not always hold.
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One major source of skepticism that preventswidespreadacceptanceof these particles as simply a new species of bacteria lies in their extremely small size.
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Higher order functions are almost universally supported, and in this connection the discipline of polymorphic typing has gainedwidespreadacceptance.
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The concept did not gainwidespreadacceptance, even with the advent of neuroimaging.
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