The phrase "an accepted truth" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express that something is generally accepted as true or accurate. For example: "It is an accepted truth that the Earth is round."
The "lost generation" implies a foregone conclusion, an accepted truth, with no opportunity for defence or explanations.
The interviews help reveal how what began as gossip made the rounds in expatriate circles in Beijing until it became an accepted truth about the Bo family.
Time was that children's behavior in the classroom reflected on their "upbringing" and parents were expected to reinforce an accepted truth that "teacher knows best".
Another article repeated what to many Pakistanis and Afghans is an accepted truth about Sept. 11: that 4,000 Jews who worked at the World Trade Center were tipped off about the attack by Israel, the real culprit, and stayed home from work.
I cannot, for the life of me, understand how that wasn't an accepted truth from Day One.
It is an accepted truth in Washington D.C., in the mainstream media, and among our political thought leaders that Hillary Clinton is a better general election candidate for progressives than Bernie Sanders.
Then, the analytical category of a deterministic worldview transforms into an unintentionally accepted truth and one may belief that the future is actually foreseeable and controllable.
Dalley said: "That the Hanging Garden was built in Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar the Great is a fact learned at school and … 'verified' in encyclopaedias … To challenge such a universally accepted truth might seem the height of arrogance, revisionist scholarship..
It's a generally accepted truth that men love to feed our sporting hobbies with exorbitant, extravagant equipment: and we love to talk about our newest discoveries and acquisitions.
We acknowledge, as a widely accepted truth, that Cuba does violate human rights and fundamental freedoms and does not guarantee the rule of law to people living in Cuba.... Persons living in such a totalitarian state may be unable to assert freely their own legal rights, much less the legal rights of others.
("If you look closely you'll see the name of the garage was called Smitten's. Criminal!") As Koresky gushed about The Long Day Closes ("one of the greatest films ever made, and that's becoming a widespread accepted truth!") Davies shrugged and thought it would never make it out of the UK.
