Sample sentences for CONSENSUS

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Definition

agreement by a group as a whole

consensus = generally agreed upon understanding

Moderates in the senate sought to build a consensus between both parties so that the budget could be passed.

consensus = general agreement

Excessive reliance on consensus is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.
Michael Crichton

consensus = generally agreed upon understanding

The United States should continue to express strong reservations about any WTO competition discipline, until there is a broader consensus about what antitrust law is, and is not.
Diane Wood -- Cooperation and Convergence in International Antitrust

consensus = generally agreed upon understanding

The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel.
Terry Pratchett

consensus = generally agreed upon understanding

But as the months passed and I had the opportunity to ponder McCandless s death at greater length, the less plausible this consensus seemed.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

consensus = generally agreed upon understanding

He was hoping to build a political consensus behind launching an all-out attack on the Taliban.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

consensus = agreement by a group as a whole

But the general consensus is that Shawn was standing near the brink, and for no reason at all stepped backward and lost his footing.
Tara Westover -- Educated

consensus = generally agreed upon understanding

The unspoken consensus was that a meaningful victory like the one at Blaxik would never be theirs again.
Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars

consensus = agreed understanding

Many people thought it was the weather, and others blamed the moon, but the general consensus of opinion held that the trouble began at the time that Rhyme and Reason were banished.
Norton Juster -- The Phantom Tollbooth

consensus = generally agreed upon understanding

Over the years, many potential explanations have been examined and debated, and the consensus appears to be that that region was plagued by a particularly virulent strain of what sociologists call a "culture of honor."
Malcolm Gladwell -- Outliers

consensus = generally agreed upon understanding

In all these cases the children were too young to give any properly intelligible account of themselves, but the consensus of their excuses is that they had been with a "bloofer lady."
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

consensus = generally agreed upon understanding

consensus = generally agreed upon understanding

Since my colleagues and I can come to no consensus, it has been agreed that we will let the victors decide.
Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay
With the consensus of the entire Council, I can make you immortal.
Rick Riordan -- The Last Olympian
Stave off doubts, eliminate the questions, be as outraged as the people themselves and march to the drums of consensus.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
They had no means of consensus.
John Wyndham -- The Chrysalids
That is the general consensus among.... people who pay attention to such things.
John Ringo -- Live Free or Die
But at the meeting today, the consensus on the World Bank team had seemed to be that Justice—the prisoners—would get only 20 percent of the loan.
Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
Johnny nodded, "Unlike a human personality which can... I believe the consensus is... be destroyed at death, my own consciousness cannot be terminated.
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion

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