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common consent

noun as in universal agreement

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Translated as “Nothing new without the common consent,” the new law redistributed political power by forbidding the king from issuing decrees without first getting parliamentary approval.

From Salon

By common consent, Sancho is yet to reach the same levels since his return to the club that prompted United to pay £73m for the 24-year-old in 2021.

From BBC

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.

I probably felt more anxious than the rest, because I was, by common consent, at the head of the whole affair.

It was odd to notice that by common consent we had all put on black clothes.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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