common consent
Example Sentences
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He narrowly missed selection for the last Ryder Cup and, by common consent, is currently one of the top dozen American golfers.
From BBC • Aug. 27, 2025
He’s so insufferably priggish that at school his name, William Orser, has by common consent been elided to the nonexistent word “Worser,” just to drive him crazy.
From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2022
By common consent, he helped to redefine the notion of the rock drummer, elevating the role from that of time-keeping backing musician to a star attraction.
From The Guardian • Oct. 6, 2019
A new film by Julian Schnabel, “At Eternity’s Gate,” with Willem Dafoe playing the man we refer to, by common consent, as “poor Vincent,” captures this beauty.
From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2018
By common consent they were using the spears as sabers now, no longer daring the lethal points.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
