prevalent
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The company’s presence in the lives of millions of Americans has only grown more prevalent in the past decade, the period when Ned’s daughter at long last succeeded him as Fidelity’s chairman.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
“They’re becoming more prevalent and they’re slowly making their way across the Southeast. When we recently did work in Tennessee, every single rock alcove had one in it.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
The trademark right hand still carried threat, but the explosiveness, timing and confidence that once made him so dangerous were not as prevalent.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026
But Arm is less prevalent in enterprise software and a wave of corporations migrating their on-premises x86 servers to Arm AGI could remedy that.
From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026
In reality, I regularly observe in New Guinea that native societies there differ greatly from each other in their prevalent outlooks.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing prevalent
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