dominant
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That changed when artificial intelligence became the world’s dominant investment theme.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
Vingegaard showed real promise in the build-up to this Tour after dominant wins in last year's Vuelta a Espana Grand Tour and the Giro d'Italia in May.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
Instead, enormous quantities of fine debris blasted into the atmosphere may have played the dominant role.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
Its dominant object, a bronze sculpture of the god Veiovis, dates to the first century A.D., after Etruscans became Roman citizens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Since coming to power in 1933, Hitler and the Nazis wasted no time in consolidating control, silencing their opponents, and beginning the campaign to reestablish Germany as a dominant world power.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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
Our own expression upon evolution by successive dominants and their correlates is against it.
From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles
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 Berman, Louis, M.D.
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