dominant
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The researchers found that one possible class of early black hole seeds, remnants left behind by supermassive Dark Stars, could potentially provide a dominant contribution to the PTA signal.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
In recent months, Leonardo Maria Del Vecchio had sought to become Delfin's dominant shareholder by buying out the stakes held by his brother Luca and his sister Paola.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Despite its heady valuation, SpaceX is the dominant player in both reusable commercial rockets and global satellite internet.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
The new unit, overseen by senior minister Louise Haigh, has been tasked with being the "dominant driver of the UK's economy".
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
A multicultural interpretation of US history emphasizes only the “contributions” of groups that were ignored in the dominant origin myth, including Indigenous peoples, women, African Americans, and immigrants.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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
Right now they'll be concentrating in dreams and dream-empathy, in some of the newer Garlonian dances, Sarchian cooking for the receptives and Wortan fighting for the dominants.
From Earthsmith by Stephen Marlowe
"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 The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes by Israel Zangwill
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