commonly accepted
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Scholars retranslated biblical texts to correct scribal errors in commonly accepted versions, including the Vulgate—the Catholic Church’s official Latin translation of the Bible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
According to the trade group, the most commonly accepted use was writing cover letters or CVs, followed by completing online application questions.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
In our current “post-peak, but still too much TV” era, it’s commonly accepted that broadcast is an award season afterthought, although critical stalwarts like “Abbott Elementary” continue to muscle their way into competitions.
From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2025
Ethicists such as Peter Singer, for example, have argued against speciesism — the idea that dogs should be considered off-limits while pigs, an animal that is no less intelligent, are commonly accepted as food.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2024
In Darwin’s time, the most commonly accepted mechanism of heredity was a theory advanced by the eighteenth-century French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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