growing consensus
noun
: increasing agreement among people
There is a growing consensus about/on the need for further investigation.
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The system’s approach reflects a growing consensus that punitive approaches to substance use during pregnancy lead to worse medical outcomes for both parent and child and inflict disproportionate harm on families of color and families of low socioeconomic status.
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Mira Cheng, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024
That unhappy statistic reflected a growing consensus that while the rest of the nation is enjoying a fairly vigorous recovery from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, California is lagging behind.
—Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2024
The resolution comes despite a growing consensus among legal scholars that Republicans have yet to put forward evidence that Mayorkas has committed an impeachable offense.
—Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 1 Feb. 2024
By 2015, following Russia’s annexation of Crimea, there was a growing consensus that Putin’s propaganda had largely succeeded on Russia’s youth, who were too young to remember the fleeting, tumultuous democratic reforms of the 1990s and had never really known democracy.
—Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2024
The growing consensus that fighting disinformation is a legitimate government function provided an excuse for autocratic regimes around the world to crack down on critical speech.
—Joel Simon, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2024
Despite the growing consensus on the threats posed by China, debates continue over how best to meet them.
—Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
However, there is a growing consensus among researchers that vaccination is protective.
—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2024
There seems to be a growing consensus on Wall Street that the last gasp of inflation is either here already or on its way.
—Will Daniel, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2023
Mira Cheng, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024
That unhappy statistic reflected a growing consensus that while the rest of the nation is enjoying a fairly vigorous recovery from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, California is lagging behind.
—Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2024
The resolution comes despite a growing consensus among legal scholars that Republicans have yet to put forward evidence that Mayorkas has committed an impeachable offense.
—Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 1 Feb. 2024
By 2015, following Russia’s annexation of Crimea, there was a growing consensus that Putin’s propaganda had largely succeeded on Russia’s youth, who were too young to remember the fleeting, tumultuous democratic reforms of the 1990s and had never really known democracy.
—Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2024
The growing consensus that fighting disinformation is a legitimate government function provided an excuse for autocratic regimes around the world to crack down on critical speech.
—Joel Simon, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2024
Despite the growing consensus on the threats posed by China, debates continue over how best to meet them.
—Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
However, there is a growing consensus among researchers that vaccination is protective.
—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2024
There seems to be a growing consensus on Wall Street that the last gasp of inflation is either here already or on its way.
—Will Daniel, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2023
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