popular conception

Examples (10)

• Contrary to popular conception, sharks rarely attack humans unprovoked.
• The documentary challenged the popular conception that all politicians are corrupt.
• The popular conception of the Middle Ages is that it was a dark and ignorant time.
• Scientific evidence often disproves a long-held popular conception.
• It's a popular conception that lightning never strikes the same place twice, but it's untrue.
• The popular conception is that artists are starving and unhappy, but many lead fulfilling lives.
• His research aims to change the public's popular conception of mental illness.
• Many popular conceptions about history are based more on movies than on facts.
• Is the popular conception of a successful life still relevant today?
• This new discovery might shift the popular conception of how the universe began.