The widely accepted view was that bird songs are long complex vocalizations produced by males during the breeding season, whereas such vocalizations in females are generally rare or abnormal.
Few people knew female birds had unique songs—until women started studying them|By Omland, Rose & Odom/The Conversation|September 28, 2020|Popular Science
Recent studies of the cosmic microwave background suggested that the geometry of space may be curved instead of being simply flat, which is consistent with the most accepted theory of the big bang.
Dark Energy: Map Gives Clue About What It Is—but Deepens Dispute About the Cosmic Expansion Rate|Julian Bautista|July 31, 2020|Singularity Hub
The accepted idea had been that the earliest galaxies probably where not flat but shaped like a ball.
Oldest disk galaxy puts a new spin on galaxy growth|Lisa Grossman|June 30, 2020|Science News For Students
Many Jewish women have been accepted as conventional, mainstream hot.
Why Was Bess Myerson the First and Last Jewish Miss America?|Emily Shire|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Inquiries will be accepted only via Western Union telegram or rotary phone.
The World’s Toughest Political Quiz|Jeff Greenfield|December 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
When everyone is struggling, how much is to be offered to the more destitute, and how much is to be accepted?
This Week’s Hot Reads: December 22, 2014|Mythili Rao|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Even his signature instrument, Auto-Tune, has become as accepted an ingredient in hip-hop as the drum machine.
Future Makes Us Rethink Everything We Thought We Knew About Rap Artists|Luke Hopping|December 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
At the end of his life, after the AFI dinner, the queen offered, and he accepted, a knighthood.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Accepted them, rather, as a part of the mystery which wrapped him about.
The Breaking Point|Mary Roberts Rinehart
How gladly would I have accepted their hearty invitation to remain several weeks with them!
A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy|Ida Pfeiffer
All of which information, useful in a way, no doubt, was accepted by Jack with a smile.
The Golf Course Mystery|Chester K. Steele
They neither gave nor accepted any titles of respect or honour, nor would they call any man master on earth.
Fox's Book of Martyrs|John Foxe
But most librarians have not accepted this pessimistic negative.
Papers and proceedings of the thirty-fifth general meeting of the American Library Association, 1913|Various
British Dictionary definitions for accepted
accepted
/ (əkˈsɛptɪd) /
adjective
commonly approved or recognized; customary; established