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

As of now, there is no accepted maximum BMI value considered to be prohibitive for those in need of bariatric surgery, but it is commonly accepted that an increased BMI translates to increased surgical risk.

From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2024

Some of that means playing with commonly accepted notions concerning aging and one’s marketplace viability.

From Salon • May 2, 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