common consent
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By common consent, this is a Celtic squad well past its sell-by date.
From BBC ● May 23, 2026
He’s so insufferably priggish that at school his name, William Orser, has by common consent been elided to the nonexistent word “Worser,” just to drive him crazy.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2022
A new film by Julian Schnabel, “At Eternity’s Gate,” with Willem Dafoe playing the man we refer to, by common consent, as “poor Vincent,” captures this beauty.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2018
On occasion Michaels cooks fish and vegetables for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who by common consent is an awful chef.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 5, 2018
By common consent they stopped and crouched together.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
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