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well-accepted

British

adjective

generally considered as true or correct

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Moreover, the protocol was well-accepted and well-tolerated by the people.

From Science Daily

“Travel, security, transportation, logistics — there’s a lot that they provide and it’s well known and well-accepted across the federal government.”

From Los Angeles Times

We found that shifts in social infrastructure rival those of other, more well-accepted economic factors, such as wages and unemployment rates.

From Seattle Times

Alvarez pere won a Nobel Prize for his discoveries in particle physics, but it was Alvarez fils, working with his dad, who came up with the well-accepted conclusion that a massive asteroid smacked into the Earth about 65 million years ago and wiped out virtually all the dinosaurs and cleared the Earth for the likes of us.

From Los Angeles Times

Now, he said, the guardian program has become well-accepted, even in more liberal counties.

From Washington Post

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