conventional wisdom
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Notably, Karp adds, the results were achieved “with a miniscule and shrinking sales headcount, another way in which we have discarded conventional wisdom in favor of our own, unique path.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
And if the conventional wisdom about a candidate is a lot friendlier on that platform than on a competitor’s, I’d spend some extra time interrogating why that might be happening.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
This is a “FOMO” market, and as much as it bucks conventional wisdom, it really is a market you should not miss.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
And while conventional wisdom says you should always cook what you know when hosting, I think that’s baloney.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
At the time the conventional wisdom about the dinosaur extinction was the same as it had been in Charles Lyell’s day a century earlier–namely that the dinosaurs had died out over millions of years.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
