conventional wisdom

noun

Definition of conventional wisdomnext
as in party line
opinions or beliefs that are held or accepted by most people Conventional wisdom in Hollywood says that a movie can't succeed unless it stars a famous actor or actress.

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Recent Examples of conventional wisdom The conventional wisdom — outside team headquarters here, at least — is that the Commanders need more talent and depth at wide receiver. — Barry Svrluga, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026 DeepSeek challenged the conventional wisdom that developing an advanced AI model requires massive financial investment and vast computing power, and offered competitive pricing. — John Liu, CNN Money, 24 July 2026 Hers is, admittedly, conventional wisdom that any mentor would offer. — Tope Folarin, The Atlantic, 22 July 2026 When box office sales plummeted during the pandemic, conventional wisdom held that members of Gen Z might not return to the movie theater. — Kelenna Onukwugha, Christian Science Monitor, 21 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for conventional wisdom
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  1. party line
  2. generalization
  3. commonplace
  4. stereotype
  5. routine
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  • The Senate Judiciary Committee voted by a 12-10 party line vote Tuesday to advance Blanche's nomination for a vote by the full Senate later this week.
    — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Ryan was one of 103 Democrats in the House to break with his party line and vote to end all aid to Israel earlier this month.
    — Max Grinstein, The Washington Examiner, 30 July 2026
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  • Training used as many as 128 GPUs and approximately 21,000 GPU hours, with experiments showing progressively better tracking and generalization as data, model size, and compute increased.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026
  • But to make some generalization that all career women are psychotic because Glenn Close happened to be psychotic at the end of that movie is just silly.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2026
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  • Wolff was only the eighth woman to drive a Formula 1 car (four more have done it since); the role, a now-commonplace one that includes driving the simulator during Grand Prix weekends to inform trackside strategy, was created for her.
    — Danielle McNally, InStyle, 28 May 2026
  • The videos are often integrated into larger montages of drone strikes, underscoring how commonplace these drones have become for Russian forces.
    — Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
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  • Non-Asian parents in TV shows talked about this stuff all the time, yet my parents were living stereotypes.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Envy and schadenfreude are two emotions that are readily associated with old anti-Jewish stereotypes, and could develop dynamics of their own.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of stereotype
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  • The 5-inch touch screen walks through networking, calibration, self-check routines, and bed leveling step by step, making the initial startup surprisingly painless considering the machine’s size.
    — Michael Lydick, PC Magazine, 15 Aug. 2026
  • One routine that created apprehension among the general public was visiting public restrooms, Simon wrote.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2026
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“Conventional wisdom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conventional%20wisdom. Accessed 19 Aug. 2026.

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