dominant
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But 18 years and more than £3bn on transfers later, they have become the most dominant club in England, winning eight titles.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
While the company has recovered some ground this century, particularly with its luxury brands Audi and Porsche, its group market share in North America hovers around 4%, far below its dominant position in other markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Like Sur, Curtis said he expects Broadcom to remain as “the dominant supplier” of Google’s TPUs, though reports of rising competition “are hard to disprove.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
Donald was voted defensive player of the year in 2017, 2018 and 2020, and has amassed 111 sacks, making him perhaps the most dominant interior defensive lineman in league history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
For me, it's always been my dominant nose.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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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
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These fifty crossbreds have mixed offspring; these offspring again in their numerical proportion follow the same law, namely, three dominants to one recessive.
From Catholic Churchmen in Science by James J. Walsh
Our own expression upon evolution by successive dominants and their correlates is against it.
From The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort
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