Sentence examples for prevailing lore from inspiring English sources

Every few pages Maraniss offers a factual nugget that changes or enlarges the prevailing lore.

(In contrast to the prevailing lore, historians have concluded that the Old Man did not steal the election for Kennedy. Chicago's vote was riddled with fraud, but Richard Nixon would have lost Illinois anyway).

And then, the prevailing knowledge and lore in our whole culture can shift away from gimmicky, quick-fix nonsense, to a reliable, actionable, shareable truth.

According to long-prevailing organizational lore, it was children in Pennsylvania who decided to use their Halloween rounds to raise money to help Unicef provide vaccinations, clean water, education and other essential help to youngsters overseas.

In keeping with the prevailing spirit of Ibiza, tepee owners tend to draw on the lore of tribal life in their decorating.

Between proverbial weather lore and scientific meteorology lies a wealth of observations that have been classified and roughly systematized into the natural history of the subject for example, prevailing winds at certain seasons, more or less predictable warm spells such as Indian summer, and correlation between Himalayan snowfall and intensity of monsoon.

Perhaps the prevailing climate mattered.

Is that the prevailing view?

The voters are prevailing.

So far, the older generation is prevailing.

They are, for the moment, prevailing.