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The phrase "acquired idea" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing concepts or thoughts that have been obtained or learned over time.
Example: "Through years of study and experience, she developed an acquired idea of what constitutes effective leadership."
Alternatives: "gained concept" or "learned notion."
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This was an acquired idea of 'What is a woman?' What should a woman look like?
echoed to the pitter-patter of graduate students bubbling over with excitement at the possibility of applying some newly acquired idea to anthropology.
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By the time he was fourteen, he was hopelessly addicted to work but had acquired ideas about money.
For the first time, he acquired ideas with a political edge, and soon became assistant to the chief of staff, General Nasution.
At first sight, Ivan, a nephew of Julio and Lola, appears to be a cut above all this, having been to college and acquired ideas that, because they are different, strike everyone else as Marxist.
Not only did he appear delighted to learn and team up with others, in subsequent books and presentations he would share those newly acquired ideas as passionately as his own.
Not answering the Where From Question can leave a lingering sense that perhaps the typist under scrutiny acquires ideas under the counter from seedy backstreet inspiration dens, or cheaply from abroad, where they are bred in conditions involving cruelty and inadequate hygiene.
The success of idea competitions as a mechanism for acquiring ideas is challenging because very few ideas are selected from a huge pool of ideas submitted on crowdsourcing platforms (Mortara et al. 2013).
Hettinger argues that intellectual property "restricts methods of acquiring ideas (as do trade secrets), it restricts the use of ideas (as do patents), and it restricts the expression of ideas (as do copyrights)—restrictions undesirable for a number of reasons" (Hettinger 1989).
His answer to these questions sought not just to explain how this person would acquire ideas of space and of external objects, but to prove that nothing more would be needed for it to acquire all the knowledge and all of the abilities that we have other than just to experience a sufficiently rich array of sensations.
In that time, she seems to have acquired an idea of her opponent and, in turn, herself: that she is the patriot in the race, and the believer.
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