widespread perception
collocation in Englishmeaningsofwidespreadandperception
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widespread
adjective
uk/ˌwaɪdˈspred/us/ˌwaɪdˈspred/
existing or happening in many places and/or among ...
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perception
noun
uk/pəˈsep.ʃən/us/pɚ-/
a belief or opinion, often held by many people and based on how ...
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(Definition ofwidespreadandperceptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The lack of studies on area fees may have contributed to thewidespreadperceptionthat they are nondistortionary.
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I have assumed that this reflects awidespreadperceptionthat the status of the fetus is lower.
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There is awidespreadperceptionthat music and architecture are profoundly dissimilar, far removed from each other in the creative spectrum.
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There is awidespreadperceptionthat educational interventions are the most effective.
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Fig. 2 sketches thatwidespreadperceptionthat material systems have become more organized and complex, especially in relatively recent times.
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There is awidespreadperceptionof grave injustice built into the system.
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There is awidespreadperceptionthat healthy, sustainable travel to school largely involves walking and cycling, rather than bus use.
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We must take account of, and reflect in our policy, thatwidespreadperception, if we believe that it is true.
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There is an increasinglywidespreadperceptionthat what is not a duty does not get done.
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That information is useful because there is awidespreadperception, which is wholly wrong, that they are all closed.
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There is awidespreadperceptionthat the company's financial and technological base needs strengthening in this way.
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There is awidespreadperception—again, it is not important whether it is a perception or a reality—that the mid-term elections are a factor.
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There is still awidespreadperceptionthat public money is going into the dome.
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There is awidespreadperceptionin a large percentage of the unemployed that they will simply never get back to work again.
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There is awidespreadperceptionthat in recent years there has been something of a decline in standards in this matter.
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That will be thewidespreadperception.
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There was also awidespreadperceptionwithin the territory after the signing of the joint declaration that there would be a start made to direct elections in 1988.
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From our programme of interviews and consultations, we are impressed by thewidespreadperceptionof, and concern over, this basic conflict, both among members of the profession and among outsiders.
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That is crucial, because it deals with thewidespreadperceptionamong pensioners that people who play by the rules and save are penalised because they get no additional state help.
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The alienation and anger of the population were fanned by thewidespreadperceptionthat the government had become corrupt and aloof.
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