predominate

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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

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

But those are categories in which unions already predominate.

From Slate • Jul. 2, 2025

In the deeper layers, slower oscillations called alpha and beta waves predominate.

From Science Daily • Jan. 18, 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