dominant

At 80, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the dominant figure in Brazilian politics for four decades, wants to show he still has the energy to win a fourth term in office in October's election.

From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026

“Quota policy matters because it signals OPEC+’s medium-term strategy, but physical flows remain the dominant driver of the market while regional disruption persists.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026

She holds a dominant lead in the race against … whichever other candidates are in it on any given day.

From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2026

Burning natural gas has long been the dominant source of electricity in the state.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

Such a chord can be dominant, major, or minor; the performer must take care to play the correct third and seventh.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

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

I noticed one or two hairy, apelike dominants from Jupiter's third moon, and a few of the snaky, scaly, six-limbed creatures from the second.

From The Telenizer by Thompson, Don

"And do you mean to say that a musician in this God-forsaken country must have no chords but tonics and dominants?" ejaculated Lancelot hotly.

From Merely Mary Ann by Zangwill, Israel