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
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
Female athletes' bodies reflect their incredible physical abilities, which were really valued over the Olympics, but for women that isn't part of the received idea of beauty.
From BBC • Nov. 22, 2013
Its history agrees with the generally received idea of primitive man as conceived by the geologist.
From A Manual of the Antiquity of Man by MacLean, J. P. (John Patterson)
