Without fanfare, the official consensus estimate of the size of the problem is shrunk.
The official consensus, it is clear, still does not include the Arab minority.
At which point, the official consensus will be that it's essentially neither good nor bad — in moderation.
From the prime minister downwards, there's an official consensus that public engagement is crucial for modern policy and politics.
Instead, four months into his tenure, the seven so-called basketball colleges, all Catholic institutions, are moving toward an official consensus to control their future.
The former, I think, is the more common form of pro-choice absolutism, and the latter belongs to the more philosophically-inclined fringe (although the debate over "born-alive" bills has moved the official consensus fringeward).
To the extent that there is an official consensus on such things, this is it: if you're overweight or obese, you're running a substantial risk of ill health and premature death; if you want to avoid these evils, lose weight.
Losses were a penny wider than official consensus forecasts.
During the bull market, whisper numbers became so popular for tech stocks that the companies and Wall Street choreographed official consensus estimates lower than actual earnings.
Today, in the wake of warnings by dozens of companies that their fourth-quarter earnings won't meet the official consensus, whisper numbers are taking unprecedented dives below the consensus estimates that Wall Street analysts have already lowered.
