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Six example sentences with accepted, each labelled with its topic.
Plate tectonics became the accepted explanation only after the seafloor magnetic stripes were mapped in the nineteen sixties.
Science
Steel frames were an oddity in 1890 and the accepted method by 1920, once insurers stopped charging extra.
Architecture
Resting meat after roasting is accepted practice in every professional kitchen, though few cooks agree on how long.
Cooking
Diversifying across asset classes is the accepted approach for a pension fund, whatever a single manager's hunch might say.
Finance
For centuries the accepted view held that knowledge was justified true belief, until a three-page paper unsettled it.
Philosophy
The three-point line was mocked as a gimmick in 1979, yet by 2015 it was the accepted center of every offense.
Basketball
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