dominant
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Arsenal were dominant, with their three goals coming by the 49th minute, and Coventry registering just one shot on target.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
He received his bachelor’s degree at Harvard University, where he took up squash, and became a dominant player, both in college and in national competition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Stamford, Conn.-based Charter on Thursday finalized its $34.5-billion purchase of Cox Communications, making Spectrum the dominant internet and television provider in Southern California, covering Santa Barbara to the Mexican border.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
The dominant charge density wave returned gradually and evenly, regardless of how strongly the researchers had initially disrupted the material.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
Once, Coke had been far and away the dominant soft drink in the world.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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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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In the first generation, raised from his crossbreds, or, as he calls them, hybrids, there were seventy-five per cent dominants and twenty-five per cent recessives.
From Catholic Churchmen in Science by James J. Walsh
Here the comparison with a steam engine with self-regulators and automatic whistles is admissible, and one may speak of dominants in the sense of mechanical dominants.
From Naturalism And Religion by Rudolf Otto
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