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  • noun Plural form of consensus.

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Examples

  • Most "consensuses" these days are created due to the need for another government grant.

    Latest Articles 2010

  • One of the consensuses is that the senators are doing honor to Fighting Bob, the state of Wisconsin, and all his progressive party stood for.

    Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Wisconsin's "Missing" Senators: When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going Michael Shaw 2011

  • It's the other way around: genuine, implicit consensuses are formed by science working.

    Consensus: the "refuge of scoundrels" 2010

  • But I agree that if you were going to take note of these consensuses at all, a contrarian strategy would be warranted.

    Matthew Yglesias » Grounds for Optimism 2010

  • It is likely Obama hopes that by creating a sense he is "doing something" to help advance Israeli-Palestinian peace, he will be able to placate Arab moderates led by Saudi Arabia and foster a "strategic consensus" between Israel and Sunni Arab countries, a consensuses that would be bolstered by concerns over the rise of a Shiite Iran.

    Leon T. Hadar: The Last Summit? 2010

  • It is likely Obama hopes that by creating a sense he is "doing something" to help advance Israeli-Palestinian peace, he will be able to placate Arab moderates led by Saudi Arabia and foster a "strategic consensus" between Israel and Sunni Arab countries, a consensuses that would be bolstered by concerns over the rise of a Shiite Iran.

    Leon T. Hadar: The Last Summit? 2010

  • Cameron and his Shad Cabinet are Conservatives all right but fixing our broken nation will require building consensuses and coalitions as well as maintaining good relations with the EU no matter how distasteful this may be; we are flat broke, at war home and abroad and in big trouble!

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • It is likely Obama hopes that by creating a sense he is "doing something" to help advance Israeli-Palestinian peace, he will be able to placate Arab moderates led by Saudi Arabia and foster a "strategic consensus" between Israel and Sunni Arab countries, a consensuses that would be bolstered by concerns over the rise of a Shiite Iran.

    Leon T. Hadar: The Last Summit? 2010

  • Blogs are great places for discussion, but they aren't the place where scholarly consensuses are made and broken.

    Review of Doubting Jesus' Resurrection James F. McGrath 2010

  • It is likely Obama hopes that by creating a sense he is "doing something" to help advance Israeli-Palestinian peace, he will be able to placate Arab moderates led by Saudi Arabia and foster a "strategic consensus" between Israel and Sunni Arab countries, a consensuses that would be bolstered by concerns over the rise of a Shiite Iran.

    Leon T. Hadar: The Last Summit? 2010

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