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

And the more prepotent the variety's own pollen could be rendered through natural selection, the greater the advantage would be.

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

As offspring tend to resemble grandparents almost as much as parents, and as a line of close-bred ancestry is generally prepotent, so newly-originated varieties have always a tendency to reversion.

From Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism by Gray, Asa

A great number of fine and capable persons must be failing to develop, failing to tell, under the shadow of this too prepotent monarchy.

From Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)