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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a widespread impression" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a belief or perception that is commonly held by a large number of people. Example: "There is a widespread impression that the new policy will benefit the community."
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There's a widespread impression that D.M.V. employees consider their customers' time worthless.
Contrary to a widespread impression, the recent uptick in America's productivity raises more questions than it answers.
These incidents have compounded a widespread impression among the people of Baghdad that the Americans are careless of Iraqi lives.
Their reports, Erica Grieder writes, have contributed to "a widespread impression that Texas is corrupt, callous, racist, theocratic, stupid, belligerent, and most of all, dangerous".
However, things that get printed often enough begin to seep into the general consciousness of the past, so there is a widespread impression that Welles wrote "Citizen Kane".
At various points in the book, he alludes to a widespread impression of Coe as arrogant, aloof and rather unlovable – the Steve Davis of athletics.
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He lamented "the widespread impression that a frontable story is, virtually by definition, longer than 1,000 words".
Politicians from President Bush on down like to say that the terrorist attack on New York City was an attack on America, thus feeding the widespread impression that the nation feels a sudden burst of solidarity with the city.
But no matter how long the list of joint projects, technical dialogues and substantive agreements, there is a nagging sense that until a major new initiative is found, charges of drift and divergence – the "widespread" impression that "relations are on a plateau, if not in the doldrums," as a former Indian ambassador to the United States observed on Thursday – will dog the relationship.
That sensitivity is partly the result of a widespread domestic impression that America's war on terrorism has actually been an assault on Islam.
More importantly, it is a widespread clinical impression that its success in everyday practice has been less triumphant than might have been anticipated on the grounds of randomized controlled trials (International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot 2007; Papanas and Maltezos 2007).
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