prevailing sentiment

Example Sentences

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What was the prevailing sentiment on that in your study?

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

All that lucre couldn’t override the prevailing sentiment among discontented voters who were ready, after nearly eight years of the uber-outsider Arnold Schwarzenegger, to embrace the tried-and-true experience of the reemergent Jerry Brown.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2025

But judging from the excitement on social media, the prevailing sentiment is hope the cash injection will make existing Bitcoin investors rich.

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2024

Regardless, college student and baker Rowan isn’t getting too cocky and summarizes what seems to be the prevailing sentiment on this season of “Bake Off.”

From Salon • Oct. 28, 2023

“Do you think this represents the prevailing sentiment around town?”

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin