conventional wisdom

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The conventional wisdom would be to fade a red-hot market like South Korea and look for opportunities in a market that has lagged, like China.

From Barron's • May 31, 2026

Trump is a political survivor who has demonstrated a remarkable ability to confound conventional wisdom.

From Salon • Apr. 16, 2026

Against the conventional wisdom that civil rights were fundamentally different from political rights, Black Americans insisted that both were vital to make real America’s most cherished constitutional ideals.

From Slate • Apr. 15, 2026

Such was the power of conventional wisdom before sustained originalist scholarship was done.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

They’d need to challenge a lot of conventional wisdom.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel