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dominant

[dom-uh-nuhnt] / ˈdɒm ə nənt /




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The All Blacks have not lost at the venue since 1994, with a dominant second-half display increasing their unbeaten run in Auckland to 54 Tests.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

“I’m grateful for the opportunity to compete against the Dodgers, because they obviously have proven to be a dominant baseball organization,” Brewers manager Pat Murphy said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

The Emirati investors have not just turned City into one of Europe's dominant football clubs.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Michigan’s attorney general filed an antitrust suit against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, alleging that the state’s largest insurer used its dominant position to drive up health costs for patients.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Since tallness was dominant, all the parental plants in this experiment were tall to start; the recessive trait had disappeared.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

A population containing a very small proportion of dominants and one containing a similar proportion of recessives are equally stable.

From Mendelism Third Edition by Reginald Crundall Punnett

I don't know what bearing sporting dominants and race-paces have on my life.

From The Little Lady of the Big House by Jack London




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