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The Yoruba people, who predominate in south-west Nigeria, are known for having an unusually high number of twin births, but it is not every day two sets of twins tie the knot.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

Amid the unfolding global financial crisis, inflation risks “continue to predominate as the greater risk to the economy,” particularly given signs that inflation pressures reflected deeper forces than the temporary oil shock, Warsh said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

But those are categories in which unions already predominate.

From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2025

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

Acacia blossom honey predominates in Korea's honey production, serving a multitude of purposes.

From Science Daily ● May 28, 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

Murillo can only be really known in Seville, in whose gallery he predominates as does Velasquez here.

From Heroic Spain by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

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

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

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