dominant
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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
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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
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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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