adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an accepted/received notion (= an idea that most people believe )
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These women challenged accepted notions of female roles in society.
be gratefully received
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All contributions will be gratefully received .
received a...fillip
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British athletics received a tremendous fillip when Wells won the Gold.
Received Pronunciation
received...death sentence
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He received a death sentence .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
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He also received surgery at Broomfield Hospital, and his condition was later described as stable.
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Hendley's lover, Terry McIntosh, 46, who admitted murder, also received life.
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But she underwent counselling, and also received support from Sheila McLean, a Gerson therapist and former nurse.
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Patients drank a bottle of magnesium citrate each night and also received tap water enemas until the return was clear.
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Four other militia and Securitate members also received prison sentences.
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If necessary, patients also received enemas the morning of the procedure.
■ NOUN
opinion
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Out of sheer perversity, the thinking human seems impelled to say something contrary to whatever received opinion has been yelling at him.
wisdom
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This is what received wisdom says.
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I am, in this regard, simply challenging received wisdom as to which is the chicken and which the egg.
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They became part of received wisdom , and to some extent, they remain so.
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His entire performance is magnificently unsettling and is no sense the Liszt Sonata of received wisdom .
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There may be, too, a sottovoce challenge to the received wisdom that it is people who cause desertification.
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Evidence is mounting against the received wisdom that interfering with a person's cholesterol intake can reliably alter his or her destiny.
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A consequence of breaking new ground is that received wisdom becomes a poor guide.
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The received wisdom in pellet form, with some of the pellets poisoned.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(the) conventional/received/traditional etc wisdom
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Clear-thinking organizations rely on cost justification to reveal these truths, even if they run counter to current plans and conventional wisdom .
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Evidence introduced to bolster orthodoxy in one field frequently carried unforeseen implications for conventional wisdom in another.
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He set out a scenario which ran against the conventional wisdom at the time.
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Nothing is more completely accepted in the conventional wisdom than the cliche that economic life is endlessly and inherently uncertain.
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That is all as it should be: but there are some dangers in conventional wisdom .
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This pre-eminently is an occasion when we would expect the conventional wisdom to lose touch with the reality.
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Under the stress of circumstance, the conventional wisdom is rejected.
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We repudiated entirely customary morals, conventions and traditional wisdom .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Sontag's articles challenged received notions about photography.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Innovation, as so often in the market itself, is seen primarily within these received terms.
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Such a search will involve itself of course with received institutions; certainly it will go beyond them.