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popular opinion
noun as in vox populi
Example Sentences
Now, 42 percent believe that it is innate and 37 percent hold that it is environmental—hardly a massive shift in popular opinion.
But it is more likely to be Abbas, not the BDS movement, who is out of tune with Palestinian popular opinion.
Observers believe she sees support for the Rohingya as going treacherously against the tide of popular opinion.
But as Misty White Sidell points out, her influence exceeds popular opinion.
Contrary to popular opinion, sex is not the biggest taboo in China.
Whooping-cough is very infectious, and, contrary to the popular opinion, it is frequently a fatal disease.
Our present common-school system is an off-spring of popular opinion, as that opinion was created and led to action by a few men.
It was praiseworthy in him that he cared nothing for popular opinion, but he might not be able to hold out against it much longer.
He knew that the people took his guilt for granted, and that a jury would reflect popular opinion.
We have seen that both philosophical and popular opinion in Greece believed in a past age of savagery.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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