conventional wisdom
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“Unlike a lot of the conventional wisdom that AI is going to eliminate people, we see AI here as something that’s going to cause people to be far more productive,” he said.
From Barron's • Apr. 22, 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
But nearly three decades after first bursting onto the scene as a teenager, Rose is experiencing an unlikely late-career renaissance that defies all conventional wisdom.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
The conventional wisdom at the time held that expressions were culturally determined—that is, we simply used our faces according to a set of learned social conventions.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
