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dominant

[dom-uh-nuhnt] / ˈdɒm ə nənt /




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That changed when artificial intelligence became the world’s dominant investment theme.

From MarketWatch Jul. 20, 2026

Vingegaard showed real promise in the build-up to this Tour after dominant wins in last year's Vuelta a Espana Grand Tour and the Giro d'Italia in May.

From BBC Jul. 19, 2026

Instead, enormous quantities of fine debris blasted into the atmosphere may have played the dominant role.

From Science Daily Jul. 19, 2026

Apple has shown a steadier upward trajectory, driven by investor confidence that its dominant consumer position can solve most problems.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

It is also clear for Mesoamerica’s staple grain of corn, which spread to become a dominant crop elsewhere in the Americas as well.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

His day job involved explaining the arcane workings of second-inversion dominants and Neapolitan sixths to a class of puzzled undergraduates that included me.

From New York Times May 14, 2011

Throughout albums like Innervisions or Songs in the Key of Life you'll find plenty of what you might call 'jazz chords' – flattened 9ths and secondary dominants and extended blues progressions and all that business.

From The Guardian Jun. 17, 2010

In its analysis he uses the Mendelian classification of biological traits into dominants and recessives, adds two other categories: survivals and mutations.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the first generation, raised from his crossbreds, or, as he calls them, hybrids, there were seventy-five per cent dominants and twenty-five per cent recessives.

From Catholic Churchmen in Science by Walsh, James J.

The gametes they produce are D+d and d+d, and the fertilisations are therefore Dd, Dd, dd, dd, or heterozygote dominants and pure recessives in equal numbers.

From Hormones and Heredity by Cunningham, J. T.




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