received idea
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The series stands apart, though, for showing how Banerjee, born in India, uses a learned idea of American appetites to pursue a received idea of the American dream.
From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2022
If you like this kind of quick counterpunch against a received idea — I do — then Dyer is for you.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2022
A received idea of professionalism makes people think they cannot express their emotions when someone dies.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2019
What if the received idea that Madame Cézanne was either mean, or put-upon, or both, is just our own, shortsighted projection?
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2018
Thus, according to the received idea of the term, a spiritual substance that moves itself, that gives motion to matter, and that acts, implies a contradiction, that necessarily infers a total impossibility.
From The System of Nature, Volume 1 by Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'Holbach
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