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predominate

[pri-dom-uh-neyt] / prɪˈdɒm əˌneɪt /


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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

Many acts perform in their national languages and some draw on folk traditions and instruments, though slick production and electro beats still predominate.

From Seattle Times Apr. 22, 2024

Even if the analysis is limited to felonies—thus excluding extremely minor crimes and misdemeanors—nonviolent offenses predominate.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

“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

Sometimes one element, sometimes another, predominates, so that the threads which unite them are hopelessly snarled.

From The Grateful Dead The History of a Folk Story by Gerould, Gordon Hall

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

“Because the voters enacted the Proposition 50 Map, we hold that the relevant inquiry is whether race predominated in the minds of the voters,” the decision said.

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

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

An opening scene in a secretarial pool has female employees chanting in unison—“I enclose an invoice for our services,” “I like your nails”—as the orchestra chatters and pulses around them, with high winds predominating.

From The New Yorker Oct. 29, 2018

Dozens of contractors, with about a half-dozen predominating, were paid about $800 million by the government to produce what was essentially half-finished garbage.

From Slate Nov. 20, 2014

In the background was the reason the photographer wanted us outside—the family laundry with, of course, the diapers predominating.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey




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