prepotent

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Without these most prepotent needs met, people do not even get an opportunity for further growth as a human.

From Scientific American • Sep. 24, 2017

Perhaps not since the full-blown Garbo has the old world offered to the new such a prepotent image of the eternal feminine as can be seen in the mysteriously soulful face of Maria Schell.

From Time Magazine Archive

The child comes from and harks back to a remoter past; the adolescent is neo-atavistic, and in him the later acquisitions of the race slowly become prepotent.

From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley

The civilized theater has begun to come; the prepotent influence of the audience is recognized.

From How to See a Play by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

For instance, there is a latent tendency in all pigeons to become blue, and, when a blue pigeon is crossed with one of any other colour, the blue tint is generally prepotent.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles