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

Then there are other places where there is much more popular sentiment, but not all that much success for actual parties.

From Salon • Apr. 2, 2023

They have been under pressure from the military governments in the two countries but Beverly Ochieng from BBC Monitoring agrees that popular sentiment may have had something to do with it.

From BBC • Feb. 1, 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