public opinion

NOUN

common belief

Synonyms

WEAK

climate of opinion community sentiment consensus gentium conventional wisdom general belief group pressure popular belief prevailing belief prevailing sentiment public belief social pressure special-interest pressure vox pop vox populi

Example Sentences

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Yet Beijing chose to activate mechanisms that mobilize public opinion—indirectly shaping the behavior of businesses and consumers—and afford the government plausible deniability.

From The Wall Street Journal

“The big thing that we find, not surprisingly, is that Democrats and Republicans look really different,” said political scientist Amy Lerman, director of UC Berkeley’s Possibility Lab, who studies race, public opinion and political behavior.

From Los Angeles Times

This wasn’t the first time public opinion exploded over when Thanksgiving should occur.

From The Wall Street Journal

But then public opinion shifted against the tax in recent decades.

From Barron's

The longer it went on, their argument ran, the more Democrats were likely to win the battle for public opinion.

From The Wall Street Journal