predominate
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The blues predominate, especially on the Village set, which opens with a 15-minute workout titled “Jump Up and Down—Fast.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 2026
It's deliberately very soft, and the idea behind introducing it was to try to generate more pit stops, and force teams away from the one-stop strategies that predominate in F1 at the moment.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2025
But those are categories in which unions already predominate.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2025
"Owing to its high mutation rate, HIV exhibits remarkable genetic diversity, resulting in different viral subtypes; some of which predominate in particular regions of the globe," said Mann.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 26, 2024
Gradually, however, like Jekyll and Hyde, one personality began to predominate.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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This would be followed by a “substitution” phase where farming develops alongside foraging in the hunter-gatherer area, and eventually a “consolidation” phase, when farming predominates.
From Science Daily ● May 30, 2026
Like the earlier cut, “Chicago Boy,” a jazzy atmosphere predominates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026
In Yoruba culture, which predominates in the south-west of the country, twins are a blessing and their names are predestined.
From BBC ● May 9, 2024
The result is an architecture that’s intended to displace the carbon-heavy cinder-block design that predominates in fast-growing African cities, modern and vernacular at the same time.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2023
Sometimes one element, sometimes another, predominates, so that the threads which unite them are hopelessly snarled.
From The Grateful Dead The History of a Folk Story by Gordon Hall Gerould
Skepticism predominated at the time, with Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott fearing OpenAI might "storm off to Amazon in a huff."
From Barron's ● May 11, 2026
“Next, looking to the record, we find virtually no evidence that race predominated in the voters’ enactment of the Proposition 50 Map.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
Though it may appear that optimism predominated throughout 2025, there were significant swings in sentiment.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 6, 2026
Tom Vilsack said the agency was adopting an “ecologically-driven” approach to older forests — an arena where logging interests have historically predominated.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 19, 2023
He stopped; his voice was breaking, and I do not know if rage or terror predominated in my own heart.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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As travel rebounds, Canadian tourists are predominating, with traffic from the United States just starting to return and overseas visitors still scant, according to data from the agency.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2022
Interpretations of Islamic law vary widely across the Muslim world, with more moderate strains predominating.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 3, 2021
Now, with anxiety over what happens predominating, “That sort of thing is all gone.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2021
“Keeping your options open” is not usually the predominating theme of a happy wedding day.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2020
In the background was the reason the photographer wanted us outside—the family laundry with, of course, the diapers predominating.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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