dominant

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His normally dominant defense was also muted, as Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns connected on 8 of 12 shots to score 21 points on Friday.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

Queerness, too, is fundamentally transgressive, not as a lifestyle choice but as a mode of being that refuses to let dominant culture dictate one’s core existence.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2026

On social-media platforms like X, some investors have loudly proclaimed that after years of serving as the dominant cryptocurrency, bitcoin might finally be lurching toward irrelevance.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

“As the SpaceX scale levers start kicking in, we expect Starlink to become the dominant provider in the space, and eventually carry the majority of internet traffic.”

From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026

After all,with Washington as president, Jefferson as secretary of state, Edmund Randolph as attorney general—he might have added Madison as dominant presence in the Congress—Virginia's interests were hardly unrepresented in the capital.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis