widespread assumption
collocation in Englishmeaningsofwidespreadandassumption
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widespread
adjective
uk/ˌwaɪdˈspred/us/ˌwaɪdˈspred/
existing or happening in many places and/or among ...
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assumption
noun
uk/əˈsʌmp.ʃən/us/əˈsʌmp.ʃən/
something that you accept as true without question ...
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(Definition ofwidespreadandassumptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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For example, there is awidespreadassumptionthat an activity can be undertaken professionally only if it is (usually, well) financially rewarded.
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Repeated recourse to inflationary policies strongly influenced public perceptions of monetary affairs, particularly thewidespreadassumptionthat government would continue to print money.
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At the heart of this refusal was the ill-founded butwidespreadassumptionthat the depression was a crisis of overproduction.
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This article challenges thewidespreadassumptionamong clinicians and researchers that the mental state can be readily assessed in community studies.
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This raises serious questions regarding thewidespreadassumptionamong conventional biologists and social scientists that culture and self are emergent while biology is determined.
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He is critical of thewidespreadassumptionthat these services will reduce bed usage but feels that their rapid availability and wide access can enhance any mental health service.
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We argued that, despite thewidespreadassumptionthat the semantic system activates the two lexicons of a bilingual, the available experimental evidence in support of such a claim is non-conclusive.
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We are assuming that perceptual states embody putative information about the world external to the organism - but this is of course awidespreadassumptionin cognitive science.
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May et al. (2005a) effectively demonstrate thewidespreadassumptionthat in different policy fields incoherence undermines policy delivery.
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There is awidespreadassumptionthat patients who merely pay a private fee for a private consultation somehow manage to elevate themselves up the waiting-list.
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There is awidespreadassumptionthat it is solely or mainly applicable to the slate quarry industry.
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We know, too, that there is awidespreadassumptionthat what industry needs today is to make far greater use of competing techniques.
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For example, there is awidespreadassumptionthat most nursing type care in nursing homes will be free.
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There is awidespreadassumptionof failure; that many in the secondary sector are already lost to education.
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Thewidespreadassumptionthat chronic sickness and severe disablement is a short term illness suddenly prolonged is fallacious and wholly invalid.
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There is today awidespreadassumption, which is quite false, that the milk is no longer necessary, that we have completely conquered the consequences of insufficient consumption of milk.
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Thewidespreadassumptionthat only council house tenants are subsidised by the state is at last being replaced by a more accurate perception of the facts.
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There is awidespreadassumptiontoday that art must necessarily be international...
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There is awidespreadassumptionthat economic growth leads to tighter labor markets and higher wages.
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