"mainstream wisdom" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a viewpoint, idea, or opinion that is held by most people in a particular setting. For example, "In the business world, it's often said that the key to success is hard work – that's the mainstream wisdom."
The mainstream wisdom would be that they need to close their own gender, ethnic and age gaps.
The mainstream wisdom -- largely correct, I think -- is that they need to close their gender, ethnic and age gaps.
Last Monday, Howard Kurtz, the CNN and Daily Beast media analyst who is as reliable a barometer of mainstream wisdom as anyone, called the journalism industry's handling of the Iraq war "the media's greatest failure in modern times".
The mainstream political wisdom has it that Mr. Montebourg's petition is a lost cause.
Mainstream medical wisdom held that heart attacks were most likely the result of high blood pressure, and that physical activity had nothing to do with either.
Rather, it is the politics that pass for mainstream conventional wisdom that are extreme -- in the sense of extremely unhelpful.
Despite their being some misgivings [ 53], our model was based on the mainstream accepted wisdom [ 54] that screening enables detection and removal of potentially cancerous polyps, thereby reducing the incidence of colorectal cancer even when cancer treatment was not available.
For decades, the conventional wisdom among mainstream porn producers was that mixing the two, specifically showing bondage and intercourse simultaneously, might invite an obscenity prosecution.
Even in Juno, a quirkier, less mainstream production, the prevailing wisdom (ignore abortion as a serious choice, however unrealistic that may be) persists.
It was two decades before the first Palestinian uprising, or intifada, made mainstream Israelis question the wisdom of holding on to the occupied territories.For some Palestinians, meanwhile, 1967 seemed like a gift.
The Unconventional Wisdom The mainstream media's fixation on user-generated content will fade as audiences tire of amateur content and companies realize the legal headaches are not worth it.
