prevalent
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While emotional-support animals may provide a service, the promotion of pets to emotional-support status appears as prevalent as grade inflation in today’s colleges.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
Government-impersonation scams have become more prevalent, with the help of AI.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
Det Ch Insp Nik Jethwa, head of the Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department, said ghost broking had become "increasingly prevalent", with criminals using social media to push fake policies.
From BBC • May 14, 2026
Those types of storms have been increasingly prevalent in recent years, fueling powerful winter storms even without the presence of El Niño.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026
Rather than insisting that there was no such thing as magic, they began to merely suggest that perhaps magic was not as prevalent as it once was.
From "Ash" by Malinda Lo
Vocabulary lists containing prevalent
30 GRE Words Beginning with "P"
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100 SAT words Beginning with "P"
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