commonly accepted

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Together, these two pieces of legislation made illegal many forms of sex discrimination that were not only commonly accepted in the U.S. but also in some cases written into the legal code.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 23, 2025

"The use of somebody's body, even after their death, without their consent is in tension with many of our commonly accepted norms of best ethical practices in medicine."

From Salon • Oct. 27, 2024

Previously, it was commonly accepted that animals' outperformance of robots must be due to the superiority of biological components.

From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2024

Ethicists such as Peter Singer, for example, have argued against speciesism — the idea that dogs should be considered off-limits while pigs, an animal that is no less intelligent, are commonly accepted as food.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2024

In Darwin’s time, the most commonly accepted mechanism of heredity was a theory advanced by the eighteenth-century French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee