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dominant

[dom-uh-nuhnt] / ˈdɒm ə nənt /




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After an utterly dominant first half, the Spurs led by 29 points in the third quarter—a deficit no team competing for an NBA championship had ever recovered from.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Social Security was the dominant assumption in American retirement planning because the rest of the system — pensions, employer-funded healthcare, predictable inflation — did most of the heavy lifting.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026

Six of those were claimed in three years, from 1993 to 1995, as the Bears became a dominant force in the decade.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

For Roche, the deal is a way to broaden its footprint in oncology, where it already holds a dominant position globally.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

In the early colonial period, when settlements remained relatively small, indentured servitude was the dominant means of securing cheap labor.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander




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