How to Use consensus in a Sentence

consensus

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  • Everyone on the council seems to understand the need for consensus.
  • The jury deliberated for more than nine hours before reaching their consensus that Trump was guilty.
    — Danielle Battaglia, Charlotte Observer, 1 June 2024
  • Playing the social game The consensus on social media seemed to be that Petty played the best social game of all the castaways.
    — Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 24 May 2024
  • The bank also beat consensus estimates on other metrics, such as net interest income and net interest margin.
    — Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 15 July 2024
  • While Annecy audiences proved largely opposed to titles made using AI, a consensus wasn’t so cut-and-dry among some artists at this year’s event.
    — Jamie Lang, Variety, 15 June 2024
  • The consensus among leaks and rumors is that the Switch 2 will be completely backward compatible with the original Switch.
    — Will Greenwald, PCMAG, 5 June 2024
  • The gloomy sentiment appeared to be the consensus online as the post gained momentum, with President Joe Biden even chiming in to try to lighten the mood.
    — Evan Rosen, New York Daily News, 14 June 2024
  • Instead of dodging the question, Lai candidly replied that a desire for independence was a consensus among Taiwan’s people.
    — Charlie Campbell / Taipei, TIME, 13 June 2024
  • Wake Forest was the consensus No. 1 the rest of the way.
    — Eric Olson, ajc, 23 June 2023
  • The consensus then became that the rest of the moon was dry.
    — Fox News, 16 Mar. 2020
  • That didn’t seem to be the consensus among my friends, though.
    — Ruthie Ackerman, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2023
  • There is still no consensus on whether the virus did leak from the Wuhan lab.
    — Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Despite the lack of consensus on the cause of that uptick, there are some clear trends.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024
  • And if there was no consensus, then the girls’ schools would not open.
    — New York Times, 8 Aug. 2022
  • They’re cursed, and there’s no consensus on a cause or how to break it.
    — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 11 Mar. 2023
  • In the lead-up to the wedding, there wasn’t a clear consensus about which tiara Markle would wear.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 19 May 2018
  • But there seems to be a consensus that the number is not small.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 11 June 2021
  • But the consensus is the AL features more top-tier clubs.
    — Jorge Castillo, latimes.com, 13 July 2019
  • But even small points of consensus could be hard to come by.
    — Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 8 May 2023
  • These are the issues that tug to the appeal of wider consensus....
    — Rebecca Beitsch, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 July 2018
  • Rodríguez is a consensus top-five prospect in the sport.
    — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 11 July 2021
  • There never was consensus among the creators of the game.
    — Dorothy Dworkin, Sun Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2022
  • While no one else’s meat was as tough as mine, the consensus from our group of six was that the food was bad.
    — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
  • While no one else's meat was as tough as mine, the consensus from our group of six was that the food was bad.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
  • There’s no clear consensus on when and how these dogs should be used to bite.
    — Abbie Vansickle and Challen Stephens, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2020
  • The group could not come to a consensus on no-knock warrants, the report said.
    — Molly Beck, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2021
  • But when something seems to work, try it, was the consensus.
    — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 23 July 2022
  • But ask around the industry and the Dodgers are the consensus front-runners to sign Ohtani.
    — Jorge Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2023
  • Once there is a consensus about what is wrong and why, the new norms must be enforced.
    — The Economist, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The group will meet monthly for the rest of the year to try and reach consensus on what a memorial on the nightclub property should look like.
    — Ryan Gillespie, Orlando Sentinel, 10 July 2024

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