noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
received opinion/wisdom etc (= the opinion most people have )
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The received wisdom is that he will retire within the next year.
the benefit/wisdom of hindsight
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With the benefit of hindsight, it’s easy to criticize.
wisdom tooth
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
ancient
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According to the ancient wisdom , spiritual growth involves transcending the limited and short-sighted Ego to make way for the Self.
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Sport can teach us the ancient wisdom that by losing our lives we gain them.
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Water is one of the four primal elements of ancient wisdom , along with earth, air and fire.
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Taught by Fenna's crafty and ancient wisdom she had learned well the deft turns of deceit.
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Our ancient wisdom is stirred to speech.
conventional
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Union consciousness and the activists Conventional wisdom attributes women's low participation in union affairs largely to domestic responsibilities.
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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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This is probably correct, but conventional medical wisdom need not be accepted entirely at face value.
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These attitudes have persisted in the conventional wisdom .
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Having said that and confirmed the conventional wisdom , however, Butler and Stokes went further.
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But conventional wisdom does not always prevail in politics.
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The conventional wisdom on energy policy is that it is better not to have one.
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But Cotton says conventional wisdom is wrong.
folk
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Maxims, proverbs, and other forms of folk wisdom give a person reasons for obeying rules.
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Like most folk wisdom it is true, I think.
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Some of the new findings, though, support previously unsubstantiated folk wisdom about alcohol and caffeine.
great
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There is great wisdom in knowing when one is wrong.
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I commend all four to those who have not yet read them; all contain great wisdom .
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She was very practical, and a woman of great wit and wisdom .
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Because Tom Heinzen listened, we have a book of great beauty and wisdom .
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He offered the world his great wisdom .
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A little learning is a dangerous thing - but great wisdom comes with much learning.
infinite
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What will the infinite wisdom of the universe do with itself as it rushes towards that point?
political
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But in the last resort, political decisions rest upon judgement, or political wisdom , and upon interests.
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Like much political folk wisdom , this particular belief is of recent origin.
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The conventional political wisdom is that you hear from the losers, not the gainers.
received
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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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The received military wisdom on prisoners was that time was on the captor's side.
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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.
traditional
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We repudiated entirely customary morals, conventions and traditional wisdom .
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This follows the traditional wisdom that a menu of about 4 to 13 items is most manageable by people.
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Whatever may be said about Ecclesiastes - and many things have been said about him - he decried traditional wisdom .
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In the automobile industry, then, current methods contradict traditional wisdom .
■ NOUN
tooth
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And you don't get your wisdom teeth until you're eighteen, at least.
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From the way Hanson set his elbows it looked as if it might be a wisdom tooth coming in.
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And carrots which looked like impacted wisdom teeth crossed with a fantasy of Edgar Allan Poe's.
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Of course, it was more than wisdom teeth they were going to be forced to cover.
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The opportunity soon came in the form of James's impacted wisdom teeth .
■ VERB
accept
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The accepted wisdom has been that the developing world's debt crisis has been solved.
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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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But not everyone accepts the wisdom of privatisation, even in the government.
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In short, for every argument there was a counter argument, or a later discovery overturned the accepted wisdom .
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At the Arts Council, he accepted government wisdom about the need for alternatives to public funding.
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Sandy repeated the accepted wisdom that an investigation target accomplishes nothing by pre-trial statements except to prepare the prosecutor for the defense.
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They have also been unwilling to accept the wisdom that women offer.
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In other words, both maintenance learning and shock learning are less learning than they are accepting conventional wisdom .
challenge
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Their new role is to challenge conventional wisdom .
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The authors could have challenged the wisdom of that kind of structure and style in the first place-but they did not.
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Galbraith challenged the conventional wisdom that everything would be all right if only the Gross National Product were big enough.
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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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Others love to argue and challenge incessantly the established wisdom of television, the press and the older generation.
doubt
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It was as if the mere presence of the prize made each man doubt his own wisdom .
impart
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They impart wisdom , morals, history.
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Blue Nails imparts her worldly wisdom , trying to impress Felt Hat with her depth and spirituality.
prevail
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But the prevailing wisdom in the industry is that the market is doubling each year as the Internet continues its explosive growth.
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The prevailing wisdom was that mortgages were not for Wall Street.
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The prevailing wisdom is that tight labor markets and higher wages finally will start driving up prices.
question
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The reader might question the wisdom of leaving oil prices to be determined by purely market forces.
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At least one money manager who focuses on emerging markets questions the wisdom of that approach.
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Some teachers have questioned the wisdom of supplying tape machines at all for the computer.
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In fact, it terrified him, and it made him question the wisdom of getting involved with Gabby.
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They question conventional wisdom , they ask awkward questions, they do not speak the jargon.
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And he even questioned the wisdom of having such a thing as a World Cup.
receive
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And as Mr Blunkett has found, academic findings often run counter to received wisdom .
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Among the many Irving assertions to be demolished was the suggestion that thought police prevent open challenge to received historical wisdom .
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But A People's Tragedy sets out to do more than posit revisionist challenges to received wisdom .
teach
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But the seminar could never do the whole of what a novel does, since theory falsifies where stories teach wisdom .
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Sport can teach us the ancient wisdom that by losing our lives we gain them.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(the) conventional wisdom
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Conventional wisdom says that gang members must be reached early to change.
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All that, at least, is the conventional wisdom.
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Around here, the conventional wisdom is that the number and volume of charges are more politically important than subsequent facts.
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As usual, conventional wisdom may not be wholly right.
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But the conventional wisdom might be wrong.
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He set out a scenario which ran against the conventional wisdom at the time.
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Keynes, as we shall see presently, was on his way to being the new fountainhead of conventional wisdom.
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The conventional wisdom of the late 1970s blamed Britain's high unemployment on the trade unions, which priced workers out of jobs.
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They had broken decisively with the conventional wisdom of the traditionalist and mercantilist society.
folk science/psychology/wisdom etc
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It was a part of folk wisdom that providing houseroom for a widowed parent could lead to intense family friction.
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Like most folk wisdom it is true, I think.
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Like much political folk wisdom, this particular belief is of recent origin.
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Maxims, proverbs, and other forms of folk wisdom give a person reasons for obeying rules.
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Some of the new findings, though, support previously unsubstantiated folk wisdom about alcohol and caffeine.
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The folk wisdom led Tory politicians to dismiss opinion poll findings suggesting the opposite.
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Voters' trade-off between taxes and services has changed since 1979 - and anyway the folk wisdom was always misleading.
nugget of information/wisdom etc
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Knowledge Adventure is very good at throwing out nuggets of information, and placing them into some sort of context.
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The room grew silent as we all digested this nugget of wisdom.
pearls of wisdom
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Do you have any other pearls of wisdom for us?
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This meant he would occasionally cast in my direction the pearls of wisdom he had accumulated in nine months on the job.
the fount of all knowledge/wisdom etc
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But these pronouncements should not be taken as the fount of all wisdom.
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Cassie Willmott, the fount of all knowledge.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an old man's wisdom
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Conventional wisdom says that the health of the economy is one of the most important factors that determines a president's chances of winning re-election.
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Paul learned to value his father's wisdom and advice.
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Some people were beginning to doubt the wisdom of their leader's decisions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Already, they said, he had the wisdom of an old man, a sage.
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Beyond the threat there is wisdom .
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Both passed wisdom down with complex language.
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Gleysteen sensed that Park was losing his way, seeming to be uncertain about the wisdom of his own decisions.
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He set out a scenario which ran against the conventional wisdom at the time.
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Thanks to a sound system that fails to function properly, Kevin's words of diseased warning and wisdom are indecipherable.
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The wisdom about life, and about the dangers which her desires may bring about, is gained by every listener.
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Their new role is to challenge conventional wisdom .