commonly accepted
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According to the trade group, the most commonly accepted use was writing cover letters or CVs, followed by completing online application questions.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
"There's a very commonly accepted truism in pediatric medicine that the face mirrors the brain, because the brain and the face form at the same time," Golding said.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2026
Still, it was commonly accepted among coaches that some teams engaged in it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
In our current “post-peak, but still too much TV” era, it’s commonly accepted that broadcast is an award season afterthought, although critical stalwarts like “Abbott Elementary” continue to muscle their way into competitions.
From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2025
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
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