popular sentiment

Example Sentences

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In the south and Midlands of England, Defoe had built an information network among religious dissenters and monitored popular sentiment on important constitutional questions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

Meanwhile, popular sentiment gauges for both stocks and bitcoin continued to flash warning signs, despite Friday’s bounce.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 22, 2025

But that will require a shrewd reading of popular sentiment, especially among youth and the middle-class in big cities such as Yaoundé and Douala.

From BBC • Oct. 9, 2024

Patience may be a virtue, but it’s not always a popular sentiment in a win-now, tweet-fast world.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2023

Newspapers reported that even in Bristol, a port city with a harbor filled with slave ships, “the popular sentiment has been very strongly expressed against the continuance of that traffick in human flesh.”

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson