dominant
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That makes Langley’s hit as dominant as the “KPop Demon Hunters” juggernaut “Golden” last summer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
However, honey bees outcompeted all other wild pollinators and based on our findings, future predicted warming in the UK is only likely to further exacerbate interference competition from dominant honey bees.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
As is the case for rare earths, tungsten is another industry critical area where China enjoys a dominant position with some 79 percent of global production.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
This sentiment pattern at market tops suggests that the dominant emotion leading up to market tops is exhaustion and even indifference.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
Josef Stalin, who’d been the general secretary of the Communist Party since 1922, became the dominant party leader, though his official job title didn’t change.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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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 above-average men," Dick continued, "these pace-makers, are the inventors, the discoverers, the constructionists, the sporting dominants.
From The Little Lady of the Big House by Jack London
"And do you mean to say that a musician in this God-forsaken country must have no chords but tonics and dominants?" ejaculated Lancelot, hotly.
From The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes by Israel Zangwill
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