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predominate

[pri-dom-uh-nayt] / prɪˈdɒm əˌneɪt /


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While car imagery doesn’t predominate on @map_pointz, the scenes that Rosales was involved in couldn’t have happened without automobiles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Themes emerge here that predominate in later Hitchcock masterpieces like “Vertigo” and “Psycho.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

It's deliberately very soft, and the idea behind introducing it was to try to generate more pit stops, and force teams away from the one-stop strategies that predominate in F1 at the moment.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2025

The network effect has made RealPage the dominant player in the market at large, and especially so in cities and neighborhoods where big landlords predominate.

From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2024

Gradually, however, like Jekyll and Hyde, one personality began to predominate.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

“We often see a transition from influenza A, which predominates early on, to influenza B, which is more common in late February into March,” says Kuritzkes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026

As a result, the Nodal signal predominates there and the AVE population differentiates.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 18, 2024

In Yoruba culture, which predominates in the south-west of the country, twins are a blessing and their names are predestined.

From BBC ● May 9, 2024

The result is an architecture that’s intended to displace the carbon-heavy cinder-block design that predominates in fast-growing African cities, modern and vernacular at the same time.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2023

There are two great divisions of character corresponding very nearly to the Stoical and Epicurean temperaments I have described—that in which the will predominates, and that in which the desires are supreme.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Skepticism predominated at the time, with Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott fearing OpenAI might "storm off to Amazon in a huff."

From Barron's ● May 11, 2026

“Next, looking to the record, we find virtually no evidence that race predominated in the voters’ enactment of the Proposition 50 Map.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026

Though it may appear that optimism predominated throughout 2025, there were significant swings in sentiment.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 6, 2026

Tom Vilsack said the agency was adopting an “ecologically-driven” approach to older forests — an arena where logging interests have historically predominated.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 19, 2023

He stopped; his voice was breaking, and I do not know if rage or terror predominated in my own heart.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

As travel rebounds, Canadian tourists are predominating, with traffic from the United States just starting to return and overseas visitors still scant, according to data from the agency.

From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2022

Interpretations of Islamic law vary widely across the Muslim world, with more moderate strains predominating.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 3, 2021

Now, with anxiety over what happens predominating, “That sort of thing is all gone.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2021

“Keeping your options open” is not usually the predominating theme of a happy wedding day.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2020

Several persons were talking at once, and Victor’s voice was predominating, even over that of his mother.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin


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