dominant
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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
This summer the band is dominant once again, only Noel and Liam Gallagher didn’t even have to leave the couch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
The big-hitting 29-year-old, now free from his tag as arguably the best men's player never to win a Grand Slam, produced a dominant display to defeat American Taylor Fritz and reach his first Wimbledon semi-final.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Similarly, America's emergence as the dominant world power in the 1940s could never have occurred if the United States had not established stable national institutions at the start that permitted the consolidation of the continent.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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 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.
The cross between a heterozygous dominant and a recessive also leads to equal numbers of recessives and of heterozygous dominants.
From Mendelism Third Edition by Punnett, Reginald Crundall
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