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dominant

[dom-uh-nuhnt] / ˈdɒm ə nənt /




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"The practical effect of this lawsuit is to shield those dominant streaming platforms like Netflix and technology companies from much needed competition," a Paramount spokesperson said.

From Barron's Jul. 13, 2026

If the merger goes through, Paramount would own four streaming services, including Warner’s HBO Max and the dominant U.S. cable TV channel owner with HBO, TBS, HGTV, Animal Planet, Food Network, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

After the catastrophe, those once dominant groups were nearly eliminated.

From Science Daily Jul. 12, 2026

Schwab is a dominant player in the brokerage industry and a pioneer in low-cost trading.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

Protective worrying, engaging with another’s mind as one entered it, taking the dominant role as one guided another’s fate, was hardly mental freedom.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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

The dark hearted or dominants behaved in two different ways.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de

In medical literature, however, there are numerous records of the spontaneous origin of various abnormalities which behave as dominants, such as brachydactyly, and Bateson considers the authenticity of some of these to be beyond doubt.

From Hormones and Heredity by Cunningham, J. T.




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