prevail
Example Sentences
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TotalEnergies faces cutting back oil and gas production if NGOs prevail in a trial that began Thursday over accusations the French energy giant failed to properly consider environmental risks.
From Barron's
Higher spending and less reliance on the U.S. are the prevailing themes in much of the defense industry lately.
From Barron's
That said, last week’s spinning top warrants attention, as such formations can signal potential exhaustion in the prevailing trend.
From Barron's
A century later, surely we can find ways to make this Wilsonian formulation prevail against ghost fleets and their sponsors.
Environmental groups have announced that they will challenge the reversal in court, where they are almost certain to prevail at first.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
