dominant
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“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 singer added that becoming one of the dominant faces of the music she grew up listening to, alongside artists such as Wizkid and Burna Boy, is "crazy".
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 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
The dominant color was brown: brown wooden buildings, brown sandy streets, as if it were a faded photograph.
From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen
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
Individuals oversized or undersized either belong to the pituitary type, or if hyphenated, have the pituitary as one of the dominants in their composition.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.
If now the F1 plant be crossed with the pure recessive, we are bringing together a series of gametes consisting of equal numbers of dominants and recessives with a series consisting solely of recessives.
From Mendelism Third Edition by Reginald Crundall Punnett
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