received idea
Example Sentences
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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
So far my original note, written without supposing that the received idea, as to the subject of the picture, had ever been questioned.
From Notes and Queries, Number 191, June 25, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George
