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predominates

verb as in be the most important, noticeable

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Example Sentences

To determine by reading a number of verses the kind of foot that predominates, and to make this the basis of the metrical scheme.

The same bourgeois element predominates in the pictures of the ladies.

For white and black choose evenly marked animals, in which white predominates.

According as one or the other faculty predominates, we have a great scientist, a great poet, or a great moralist.

Two Gods is an absurdity, for the one might desire what the other does not, and he whose will predominates is the real God.

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On this page you'll find 21 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to predominates, such as: outweigh, preponderate, overrule, manage, overshadow, and rule.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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