conventional wisdom

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The conventional wisdom would be to fade a red-hot market like South Korea and look for opportunities in a market that has lagged, like China.

From Barron's • May 31, 2026

Trump is a political survivor who has demonstrated a remarkable ability to confound conventional wisdom.

From Salon • Apr. 16, 2026

Against the conventional wisdom that civil rights were fundamentally different from political rights, Black Americans insisted that both were vital to make real America’s most cherished constitutional ideals.

From Slate • Apr. 15, 2026

But nearly three decades after first bursting onto the scene as a teenager, Rose is experiencing an unlikely late-career renaissance that defies all conventional wisdom.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

But Fox and the other purveyors of conventional wisdom turned out to be wrong.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt