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school of thought | American Dictionary

school of thought
noun[ C ]
us/ˈskul əv ˈθɔt/
a set of ideas or opinions about a matter that are shared by a group of people:
There are two schools of thought on reducing unemployment.

Examples of school of thought

school of thought
In doing so, we do not have an agenda for pushing certain viewpoints, neither our own nor those of a particular schoolofthought.
This confirms the opportunity exploitation schoolofthought.
I have borrowed the label ' pauperization ' from this source, although the authors do not treat it as a formal approach or schoolofthought.
Again, this schoolofthought has not won widespread acceptance among physicists; but again, that is not the point.
A very influential schoolofthought insists that it should be based on procedural principles that are neutral with respect to theories of the good.
This indicator casts doubt on a schoolofthought that dates the completion of the realignment to the 1936 election.
If political-ecological analysis must become more nuanced, then the complexities of busy urban areas seem a perfect match with this schoolofthought.
One schoolofthought tended to put more emphasis on the fiscal imbalances and the build-up of the public debt that we have just described.
The emergent schoolofthought can be termed regional political ecology.
This schoolofthought is referred to as empirical-statistical modeling.
But they also challenge the second schoolofthought, albeit in less obvious ways.
Another schoolofthought asserts that there is no necessary linkage between poverty and resource degradation.
It should give an idea of the concept of 'rule' in this schoolofthought.
It is important, therefore, that the spirituality that lies behind this schoolofthought should not be twisted or treated as an ideology.
Another schoolofthought, also with a substantial body of empirical evidence, seems to contradict mediamalaise theory.
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